Just to clarify: Background image support was indeed removed. Transparent background is still available (for compositing WMs): just set a background color that has an alpha component, and set an argb visual for the app (see the unofficial gnome-terminal transparency patch in the Fedora and Ubuntu packages).
Just to clarify: Background image support was indeed removed. Transparent background is still available (for compositing WMs): just set a background color that has an alpha component, and set an argb visual for the app (see the unofficial gnome-terminal transparency patch in the Fedora and Ubuntu packages).