gnome-terminal transparency issue
I have installed the new Ubuntu 8.10 on both my home desktop computer as well as my work laptop. After doing so I turned on the transparency feature of the gnome-terminal (the default terminal app for Ubuntu). On my home computer this feature would work as expected, I could see windows behind the terminal window. However, on my work computer I was seeing the desktop image. Even when there were windows behind the terminal window I saw nothing but the desktop image, not even the desktop icons were displayed.
This was very frustrating to me. I really like some of that visual candy and having it at home, but not at work was a bummer. However it turns out that the solution is simple. All I had to do was enable compiz. I had it installed on both machines, I just didn’t have it enabled on my work computer. NICE!
This is still a little frustrating. I can’t have “truley” transparent terminal windows unless I enable another application that seems to bring with it a little overhead.
