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thurnax
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:06 pm Post subject: KDE / Plasma 5 - No transparency / translucency !? |
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I just updated KDE/Plasma 5 and lost my transparent background on Konsole terminal windows. It is semi-transparent when window is inactive but the background color is not when the window is active/ in focus. When looking into the profile settings, it is configured to 50% transparency.
What's wrong?
I have XRender set as compositor but changing to OpenGL doesn't help. |
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BobWya
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:23 am Post subject: Re: KDE / Plasma 5 - No transparency / translucency !? |
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| thurnax wrote: | I just updated KDE/Plasma 5 and lost my transparent background on Konsole terminal windows. It is semi-transparent when window is inactive but the background color is not when the window is active/ in focus. When looking into the profile settings, it is configured to 50% transparency.
What's wrong?
I have XRender set as compositor but changing to OpenGL doesn't help. |
There is a bug with konsole profile transparency due to a race condition with kwin... My workaround is to autostart konsole using a simple script that delays the start of the application by 2 seconds... 
For your reference:
| Code: | ~/.config/autostart-scripts/plasma_autostart.sh
#!/bin/bash
{
sleep 5
firefox &
konsole &
kcalc &
keepassxc &
quasselclient &
kdevelop &
yakuake &
} & |
This delay also fixes the issue where kwin rules aren't obeyed at Plasma startup/login.
In other words where applications don't appear on random desktops - despite being assigned to specific desktops with kwin rules...
Bob
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