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charlie
Asked: 2014-04-23 07:33:54 +0800 CST

Guake background no more transparent in 14.04

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After upgrading from saucy to trusty, the Guake pull-down window is displaying the wallpaper as the background.

What I want is that it should be 50% transparent and display whichever window I am working on currently below the guake terminal. (like it used to on Saucy)

I checked the settings and they are in line with the expected transparent behavior.

14.04

2 Answers

  1. Transparency effects require desktop composition to be enabled to work. Install compizconfig settings manager sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager and then open it, go "Accessibility" and I think "Opacity" is the correct option to enable this, however I'm at work and not able to verify this at the moment.

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  2. Ibaile200's answer worked for me. Specifically, I installed compiz:

    sudo apt-get install compiz

    Then I restarted my system. Then I launced compiz in the guake terminal as:

    sudo compiz --replace

    The --replace flag was required; apparently I already had a UI manager running. After this, I simply right click on my guake terminal, go to Preferences --> Appearance --> Effects and now adjusting the transparency works.

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