Bug 579426 - terminator magically became transparent, and cannot be changed.
Summary: terminator magically became transparent, and cannot be changed.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: terminator
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dominic Hopf
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-05 06:00 UTC by Luke Macken
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: terminator-0.93-1.fc13
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-05-12 12:24:24 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
screenshot (2.21 MB, image/png)
2010-04-05 06:00 UTC, Luke Macken
no flags Details
terminator debugging output (18.30 KB, text/plain)
2010-04-05 06:03 UTC, Luke Macken
no flags Details
terminator.out (18.46 KB, text/plain)
2010-04-08 16:23 UTC, Luke Macken
no flags Details

Description Luke Macken 2010-04-05 06:00:42 UTC
Created attachment 404453 [details]
screenshot

Description of problem:

At some point in the past week or so, my Terminator became transparent, and I am unable to revert this change.  Attached is a screenshot that shows the transparent terminator, debugging output that says it finds the value enabled in gconf, and then gconf-editor and gnome-terminal showing that it is, in fact, not enabled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
terminator-0.14-3.fc13.noarch
gnome-terminal-2.29.92-1.fc13.x86_64

Comment 1 Luke Macken 2010-04-05 06:03:33 UTC
Created attachment 404454 [details]
terminator debugging output

Comment 2 Luke Macken 2010-04-05 06:04:10 UTC
Actually, this doesn't look like a transparent background... it looks like it is using a solid background with the default wallpaper.  I can't seem to figure out how to turn it into a white background again.

Comment 3 Dominic Hopf 2010-04-05 09:26:29 UTC
Hi Luke,
your attached debugging output actually says that background_type was configured as solid. It also says, the background_image was unset. That makes the issue indeed a bit curious. 

I'd suggest you to work around this issue by creating a ~/.config/terminator/config file. You can set values for background_color, background_type and background_image there. See 'man terminator_config' for more information about that.

Of course this may not be the solution for your issue, but is rather a workaround. I assume this has to be fixed upstream. I think it isn't necessary to report that anyway, since there already is a new upstream release (0.91) which I didn't pushed to Fedora yet because the configuration file format has changed with the release (and there were many bugs reported the first days after the release). I will push it to Rawhide and F13 next days, though. I don't think it's a good idea to push it to older Fedora releases because of the mentioned configuration file changes, but seems that won't affect you. :)

Comment 4 Luke Macken 2010-04-08 16:22:48 UTC
I created a config file by hand and it was parsed by terminator as:

    ConfigFile settings are: {'enable_real_transparency': False, 'background_color': '#000000', 'background_type': 'solid'}

However, I'm still hitting the same issue.  Attached is the debugging output.

I'd be glad to test the latest bits once they hit F13.

Comment 5 Luke Macken 2010-04-08 16:23:15 UTC
Created attachment 405351 [details]
terminator.out

debugging output with a custom config file

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-04-24 19:59:23 UTC
terminator-0.93-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/terminator-0.93-1.fc13

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-04-25 13:57:43 UTC
terminator-0.93-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update terminator'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/terminator-0.93-1.fc13

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-05-12 12:24:11 UTC
terminator-0.93-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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