transparency doesn't work [LINUX]

[gganster]

In application menu, when I slide transparency, Terminus ask me to restart. I restart the app and after, the slider stay in the same place than before, but the opacity was not apply.

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[willbuck]

I am having the same issue. Recently switching from OSX to Linux Mint and hoping to find a suitable alternative to iTerm, this looks promising but I would like a little transparency if possible.

This is a web-based app so I can see if I can find somewhere this might be able to PR a fix... no promises

[whyboris]

ps - the transparency slider, from the UI perspective, feels inverted: that is we generally have sliders increase in value when sliding to the right. Since the setting is titled "Transparency" we would think that the right-most value is the most-transparent, yet it's inverted. 🤷‍♂

[gganster]

ps - the transparency slider, from the UI perspective, feels inverted: that is we generally have sliders increase in value when sliding to the right. Since the setting is titled "Transparency" we would think that the right-most value is the most-transparent, yet it's inverted. 🤷‍♂

I though about it, I've tested with the slider at half value position, but opacity still the same

[whyboris]

@zoraneus -- sorry -- I didn't mean to suggest a solution to your problem 😅 I don't know how to fix your slider, but I'm lucky that mine works. I didn't want to create its own issue for a minor UI complaint -- perhaps if others think it's worth tackling they will comment here / create a dedicated issue / create a PR / something else 🤷‍♂

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[unixfox]

still an issue

[eirik-strand]

I'm having the same issue. Installed from deb

[ForthTurn]

I have the same issue, and I installed it from deb. My OS is Ubuntu 18.04.

[IoTPanic]

Hey all, awesome project. Issue listed is persistent in Fedora 31, which in case you didnt know is gnome, @ForthTurn probably has gnome as well. Not sure if it would have anything to do with DE but I know of other apps that could render transparency in some DEs but not others.

[iomari]

Greetings, I'm on Ubuntu Eoan and Cosmic. Transparency does not work on either.

[victoracunajara]

Fedora 30, transparency not work

[lucasjinreal]

Seems only macOS work with transparent....

[nitishingde]

Still an issue on Ubuntu

[changemenemo]

fedora 31 workstation in VM, I didn't try on the host which is also a fedora, transparency is not working. Some technical specificaitons: it's gnome boxes VM the user interface is xfce4 the underlying process should be mutter then since it's wayland by default in fedora.

[changemenemo]

still not working with 101 under fedora 31 would be in guest in gnome boxes or even on host.

[francois-claude]

same issue on 20.04

[3l0w]

[3l0w]

#2657

[tilusnet]

I have to say I had high hopes for Terminus under Linux - but the settings don't seem to work reliably. The opacity setting is one that doesn't work; others include the "User default shell" that is not picked up (it works in Guake). All in all the responsiveness is also much poorer. Terminals need to be super fast!

[mrshmllow]

Still a issue on ubuntu 20. No matter how much i change the slider it doesn't change

[RRRRRm]

same issue on ArchLinux, Gnome(Wayland)

[Doctor-Who]

Same issue on latest version alpha 116 on openSUSE + Gnome and KDE

[uninhm]

Same issue with last release (binaries) on Arch Linux

[harpreetsb]

Same issue using Ubuntu Cinnamon

[JDeepD]

Same issue in Ubuntu 20.04

[sambenzt]

Same issue in Zorin OS

[aaakashkumar]

Still an issue. Ubuntu 19.04.

[Ygarr]

Even picom has NO effect(but it is with xfce4-terminal)

[hhhhina]

Still an issue in Pop OS 20.04

[SkimFelBon]

Still an issue. Ubuntu 18.04.

Found this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53612021/12887308 Looks like adding setTimeout method to app.on('ready' can fix this problem

sample project from SO answer https://gitlab.com/doom-fr/electron-transparency-demo/-/blob/master/main.js

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[DEV-ONI]

Same issue on Ubuntu 18.04, KDE-Ubuntu. Really hoping this is resolved It works fine on my windows boot, however

[debojyotichatterjee9]

same issue Ubuntu 20.04. I dont think they are trying to fix this anytime soon.

[mxwlf]

Same issue. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

[zero734kr]

Same issue on Linux Mint 20.1 (Cinnamon)

[Tyr4El]

How are we on that? On which display frame wether it's wayland/mutter or xorg are we sure that it is actually working?

[MehdiPapir]

Hi. I use this app on Ubuntu 20.04 with gnome 3.36 and i have same issue almost. When i restart my computer Tabby Opacity doesn't work but when i minimize Tabby and restart gnome (with Alt+F2 and run r command) Opacity changed but it set in constant value and i couldn't change opacity. Maybe it could help you to fix this bug.

[dalefengs]

Same issue on archlinux + KDE

[RobertKozak]

same issue MacOS Big Sur

[izaakh]

same issue under following conditions

[Lucroz94]

Hi, This is still an issue on Linux. The opacity doesn't work properly. On Windows and MacOs its works from time to time, sometime yes, sometimes no.

Using Tabby 1.0.173 on a Debian Based Linux (Kaisen-Linux) with KDE.

[fabgrel10]

The opacity setting could be marked as "experimental" or similar under Linux since it definitely doesn't work properly yet.

[lonepie]

Running version 1.0.181 on Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE, transparency does work when using these settings:

• Appearance > Terminal background: From theme
• Window > Acrylic background: Enabled

However the Opacity slider has no effect. When switching to Terminal background: From color scheme the transparency remains active for the Settings tab and window/tab bar, but the background for terminal tabs becomes opaque.

I can force transparency with KDE's Window Rules: Active Opacity & Inactive Opacity, but that applies to the whole window, so text also becomes transparent.