console transparency 'not supported'

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haney <markh at abemblem.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> I've enabled it and will check it after I reboot.  I could have sworn that I
> didn't need to do that before.  I know I used transparency in KDE3.  Devs
> must have folded that into Desktop Effects.

No need to reboot, just press ALT+SHIFT+F12 to enable desktop effects
immediately.  (It used to just enable it automatically when you
checked the enable them at startup box, but I guess it doesn't
anymore...)

KDE 3 actually had rudimentary support for desktop effects in later
versions, which Konsole could use for transparency.  Before that, it
supported "fake transparency" which just used the desktop wallpaper as
a background to the terminal.

-T.C.