Public bug reported: Synopses: gnome-terminal will use a solid background color, regardless of the setting. UNLESS, I make gnome-terminal display a dialog box. In the contained video you'll see a terminal with a black-background (in an ssh session) when I try and close it, I get a dialog asking if I want to close the window with a running program. When the dialog appears, the background goes to true transparency. When I cancel it goes back to solid. I then change the setting of transparency and you can see that the setting is working, only when dialog happens.
Expectation: I expect gnome-terminal background to respect the transparency setting all the time, and not just when a dialog appears. Info: :~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 :~$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Thu May 1 10:40:31 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-06 (299 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (9 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty ** Attachment added: "video of the problem." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315025/+attachment/4102370/+files/IMG_1148.MOV -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315025 Title: gnome-terminal transparency works only when dialog appears. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1315025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs