Bug 1385263

Summary:	xfce4-terminal - Transparency is not working anymore
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Duco van Amstel <for_i_am_root>
Component:	xfce4-terminal	Assignee:	Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	christoph.wickert, fsumsal, kevin, nonamedotc
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Fixed In Version:	xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc25 xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc24	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Duco van Amstel 2016-10-15 19:48:28 UTC

Description of problem:
Over the last 2 months the transparency of Xfce4-terminal has not been working any more on my Fedora 24 install. This does not seem to be related to Wayland & co as it is reproducible for me on both standard sessions and Wayland sessions.

In the Preferences->Appearance menu switching the 'Background' setting to 'Transparent Background' does not change anything on the appearance of the terminal window.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-terminal.x86_64 0.6.92-1.fc24


How reproducible:
First observed on my usual install. Since then I had to go through a full clean reinstall and the problem did not disappear.


Alternative:
Building the xfce4-terminal application from source (https://code.launchpad.net/xfce4-terminal - master branch) does provide a terminal supporting transparency. I was not able to determine if this is an issue which will be resolved in the next release.


I am available to provide any kind of trace or system info if necessary.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2016-10-16 22:59:15 UTC

Upstream is planning a new release next week, so I think I will wait for that as it has a number of additional bugfixes over the transparency handling. 

Will let you know when it lands to test out... thanks for the report.

Comment 2 Duco van Amstel 2016-10-20 20:57:32 UTC

Great!
In the mean time I'm just running the custom build I did myself. Will test it out as soon as you notify me about the update.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-10-22 03:54:18 UTC

xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-9f44d2258d

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-10-22 11:54:11 UTC

xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5d54842ab2

Comment 5 Duco van Amstel 2016-10-22 19:55:17 UTC

The new version solves the transparency. Works like a charm.

Thanks for the quick replies! Am very happy to be able to use my favourite terminal again without the need to resort to a custom build.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-10-26 00:57:16 UTC

xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-10-28 19:51:22 UTC

xfce4-terminal-0.8.0-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.