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Braden Kelley (redbmk) wrote : Re: [Bug 1599453] Re: transparency does not work in gtk3

No, sorry! I was running directly from your branch. I didn't actually find
out about the new PPA until you started making noise on this transparency
stuff. I'll have to install that soon - it's looking a lot more stable than
the version I had been using for a while :)

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:15 PM Stephen Boddy <email address hidden>
wrote:

> That is, as they say, damn peculiar!
>
> You're on exactly the same version I am.
>
> I think I may have reproduced though. Are you running this from an
> installed package from the nightlies PPA? If so I messed up the package
> because I haven't added the CSS files to be copied. Up until now I was
> always running direct from a local branch.
>
> I need to tinker around with it till I get it working.
>
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> Title:
> transparency does not work in gtk3
>
> Status in Terminator:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Despite the code setting the alpha properly, transparency does not
> work for me in the GTK3 branch.
>
> Changing the transparency setting makes no difference on my terminal,
> running from the tip of the gtk3 branch. It works fine in the GTK2
> version, installed from apt-get.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with gtk v3.0, libvte v2.91 on a Yoga 3
> Pro. Graphics card is "VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics" with just the standard drivers that
> came with Ubuntu.
>
> I've attached two configs with logs associated with each one:
> 1) the default layout has a single profile, which has transparency
> turned on, titlebar off, and scrollbar turned off.
> 2) the default layout has three profiles displayed.
> 2a) The first is the same as in #1, with transparency turned on.
> 2b) Next to it is a profile with transparency turned off, and with the
> titlebar on and scrollbar on the right.
> 2c) Below both is a profile with transparency turned on higher, with a
> titlebar, and with the scrollbar on the left.
>
> I'm playing around with the code trying to see if I can find a fix
> that will work for me. So far I haven't found anything that doesn't
> break something else.
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