Transparency missing everywhere

[thistlillo]

In my Regolith 2.0 installation on a Ubuntu 20.04 (installed via package manager) all the transparency effects (I have with the normal GNOME environment) are missing. I do not care about transparency introduced for aesthetics reasons: in some cases the full opacity of graphical elements makes the system less usable.

The attached screenshot shows what I see on screen when I move two email messages within Thunderbird. As you can see, what would normal be transparent (the space between the two selected messages) is full gray and prevents me from seeing which folder I am moving the two messages into.

The problem is there also when you select and move multiple consecutive email messages: they are not transparent, so you do not see what your mouse is hovering.

I made some searches, but I could not find anything about this (preventive sorry if I used the wrong keywords). However, I think that the default behaviour should use transparency.

[kgilmer]

Hi @thistlillo , which compositor do you have installed? (apt list --installed | grep regolith-compositor)

[thistlillo]

Hello @kgilmer , the output of apt is:

regolith-compositor-none/unknown,now 1.0.3-1-1regolith amd64 [installed,automatic]

Just to add some context. I was using Regolith 1.6 and installed Regolith 2, without uninstalling the previous version. While using Regolith 2 the machine frozen and, after a hard reboot, Regolith disappeared from the list of sessions at the login screen. Quite likely, but I am not sure, this issue was caused by wrong nVidia drivers installed by an automatic update of Ubuntu 20.04. After the crash I uninstalled all the packages with regolith in their name and installed again Regolith 2 only.

[p3k]

if i may i’d like to chime in: i just installed regolith-compositor-picom-glx and still do not get any transparency when setting it in ~/.config/regolith2/Xresources:

❯ xrdb -query | grep trans
gnome.terminal.background-transparency-percent:	15
gnome.terminal.use-transparent-background:	true

manually enabling transparency works – but if i disable it or set it to zero, the config in Xresources is not applied after login or i3-msg reload:

[thistlillo]

Hi @thistlillo , which compositor do you have installed? (apt list --installed | grep regolith-compositor)

Ok, so I installed the compositor (picom) and I have transparency when I move stuff around. The only window that does not seem to become transparent is the guake terminal.

I think that some sentences regarding the compositor should be added on the regolith 2.1 installation page considering that, by default, no compositors are installed.

[thedevmanek]

regolith-compositor-picom-gl

this worked for me

[kgilmer]

@p3k I do not see that configuration in gnome-terminal settings on Debian Bookworm. Where did you find it?

[p3k]

@p3k I do not see that configuration in gnome-terminal settings on Debian Bookworm. Where did you find it?

@kgilmer i am on ubuntu 22.04 and get to it via preferences, selecting a profile and the colors tab:

[kgilmer]

Good to know, thanks @p3k . I do not have these options under Debian Bookworm:

$ gnome-terminal --version
# GNOME Terminal 3.44.1 using VTE 0.68.0 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

[p3k]

weird:

❯ gnome-terminal --version
# GNOME Terminal 3.44.0 using VTE 0.68.0 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

[woodgear]

use regolith-compositor-picom-gl,but seems still not work.