console transparency 'not supported'

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Mark Haney <markh at abemblem.com> wrote:
> I just finished getting Fedora configured on my netbook and wanted to setup
> my consoles with a slightly transparent background.  But when I go to do so,
> I get a message that my desktop appears not to support transparency.  Has
> anyone seen this before?  I know transparency works on this hardware since I
> had it configured in Kubuntu on this box.
>
> Is there some setting I need to change?

I assume you're still using KDE?  In that case, you probably have to
enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be
functional.  It's disabled by default on Fedora, while Kubuntu enables
it IIRC.

-T.C.