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gojira

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Registered: 2012-11-20

Posts: 20

Guake not transparent anymore after upgrade to Xfce 4.10

I am using Xfce 4.10 under Xubuntu 12.10. Guake terminal used to be transparent under Xubuntu 12.4 LTS. Now I upgraded to 12.10, and Guake is not transparent anymore (although it is set under preferences accordingly).

Anyone else having this problem? How can I make Guake transparent again?

Thanks!

afshin

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Registered: 2013-11-18

Posts: 1

Re: Guake not transparent anymore after upgrade to Xfce 4.10

First of all you need to check enable display compising on Setting Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor. It enable transparency in all Windows.
But if it can't help you, you can open guake preferences file probably under /usr/share/guake/prefs.glade and look for a lines containing <widget class="GtkHScale" id="background_transparency"> and a child of it that is <property name="draw_value">False</property> and make the False to True like what I do.
<property name="draw_value">True</property>
at last it works for me...

leo.unglaub

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-07-19

Posts: 8

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Re: Guake not transparent anymore after upgrade to Xfce 4.10

Maybe you want to switch to

xfce4-terminal --drop-down

anyway. It's a lot faster and offers better multi screen support than Guake.