You can change the value in the opacity rule from 80 in your nf to suit your tastes: the lower, the more transparent your terminal will be.

Now when you run lxterminal, you'll have true transparency: you'll see through to windows immediately below the terminal and your wallpaper if that's visible. Making sure to change dkb, which is my username, to yours. In there, click on the tab for Autostart and paste in compton -config /home/dkb/.config/nf -b Then, via the menu, open Preferences > Default applications for LXSession. Once that's installed, create ~/.config/nf as a plain text file.Īdd the following content: inactive-opacity = 1.0 If you want true transparency, you can install Compton by running sudo apt install compton. This pseudo-transparency, so called as the background pixmap of the root window is visible (analogous to desktop wallpaper) rather than any obscured windows, allows users to make windows look less imposing (such as Terminal emulators, which usually comprise large chunks of text), and to integrate the appearance of windows with their desktop themes. You could only see through to the root window's wallpaper even if there's another application's window between your terminal and the root window. In any case, what this terminal had in the past was 'fake transparency' also known as pseudo-transparency. So the gtk3 version of lxterminal seems to not support faux transparency.

configure of any recent version (tested 0.3.1 sourceforge and git latest on 'master') breaks faux transparency. Looks like they dropped it at some point.

I couldn't find the transparency option either in lxterminal 0.3.1.

Windows terminal transparency