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Surely, this is documented somewhere. I for some reason or another cannot find the answer for this.

Most people are wanting to make their terminals completely transparent, I however want the effects where you see the desktop background. I am certain that this is default for gnome. What is this effect called and How can I get this in XFCE?

I was told that installing something like Terminator would resolve this but its just the true transparency which looks messy with a ton of windows and stuff going on.

Here is an example of what I am wanting for XFCE.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mxwx7.png

Thanks in advance !

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The simple way could be opening your xfce4-terminal and going to Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Background and then chose a Background image to show instead of a Solid Color or Transparent. In example.

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  • I don't want a picture in the terminal . I want the current desktop background that i have to be in the terminal and if i pan to a tree in that background , i want to see that tree. – LUser Nov 03 '14 at 18:50
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In the Xubuntu version that I have solved this issue accidentally. I had to go to manage settings menu -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor(tab)

and uncheck Enable Display Compositing

Now I can have the terminal just show the desktop background instead of every thing that is messy behind it.

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