Preferences are not being saved

[jcl]

OS: Fedora 25
Terminator version: 1.9

Preferences are not being persisted anymore.
I go into preferences and change transparency and disable scrollbar, but when I restart the terminator I see scrollbar again and no transparency.

This just started happening.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

A fix went into the head of the gtk3 branch for fixing the scrollbars reappearing, *after* 1.90 was released.

I can't replicate the transparency not being persisted. It works for me. It's possible that something is going wrong on startup that is specific to your combination of system, libraries, and config. Can you recheck with the head of gtk3?

Also to be sure, can you check you ~/.config/terminator/config file after you exit, that it contains lines something like:
    background_darkness = 0.88
    background_type = transparent
in the profile that you are trying to reopen with.

https://code.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/gtk3

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

I found some additional stuff that was causing issues with the three sliders we were using. Basically unlessyou specifically dragged the slider, then the value was wrong.

See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/gtk3/revision/1677 for more detail.

Are you able to test with the head of the gtk3 branch? Can I close this bug down now?

[jcl (jclindev-deactivatedaccount)]

>Are you able to test with the head of the gtk3 branch?

srry I don't really know how to test that. When it comes to Linux I just use it - I don't know much about Linux development.

When I do `cat ~/.config/terminator/config` I see this:
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/505957/16673411/

^
Transpaerecncy still doesnt work for me. But I think other settings are being persisted properly.
So just transparency it seems.

Could be just something Wayland related? no idea

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Hi Steve, OK, so looking at your config, you _should_be seeing some transparency. However some people have reported it not working. I suspect it is part down to the theme being used. I think some themes force a solid background in some widget or other so the vte does not appear to be transparent. It is, but it is looking through to a blank solid area, whereas other themes don't do this.

Again, a big chunk of work getting this working (hopefully for everyone) has been merged in the last week or so. So very quick instruction...

1. Find a convenient folder (i.e. "Development") and run the following command:
bzr branch lp:terminator
(you may have to install bzr first. It should be available for fedora.)

2. cd into the new terminator folder.

3. Run
./terminator

Note you will need to either quit any other running instances of Terminator, or you will have to add the -u flag. Otherwise your older 1.90 is just opening another window on behalf of the newer branch. Best bet is to quit out of terminator completely and use a different terminal program to launch the new branch (i.e. I use gnome-terminal)

Hopefully you will now have transparency. In which case you just need to wait for the next release.