Setting the Terminal Window Transparency


 

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Terminal prefs

Terminal Preferences

Try as you might, you won’t find a setting for transparency anywhere until you come here and click on the Background control. That brings up not only a way to set the background color but also set the transparency at the bottom.

Terminal background color

 

Terminal background color has opacity control

That’s all there is to it, but in this case, finding is a bit harder than doing.

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