defaults write com.apple.terminal TerminalOpaqueness '0.85'The amount of transparency can be adjusted by using values between 0 and 1 (with 1 being completely opaque).
You will need to open a new terminal window to see the result.
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Terminal windows can be made transparent simply by typing the following text at the command line:
defaults write com.apple.terminal TerminalOpaqueness '0.85'The amount of transparency can be adjusted by using values between 0 and 1 (with 1 being completely opaque). You will need to open a new terminal window to see the result.
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OS X 4k17 Improves this
Good news! With the Public Beta, this trick would make the whole window transparent,
ghosted text
I tried this on my release verion install of OS X.
It was buggy as hell. This screenshot (1152x768, ~160K) shows that yes, I have a pretty transparent terminal window but that it's also got lots of "ghost" text - when my text scrolled up, it left little shadows behind. I've noticed this on several different machines, with different color schemes. I'd be all over transparent terminals if this didn't happen...
ghosted text
Very odd - I get nothing like that, even at 50%+ transparency -- what video card do you have, and how much transparency?
ghosted text
I cranked it up to 100% transparency, and it's the ATI Rage Mobility (I think :) that's in my Powerbook G4. :)
ghosted text
I get the same thing in my PowerBook G3 Bronze (ATI Rage) at anything less then about 90%.
ghosted text
I get the ghosted text only if I resize the terminal window - and then whatever text is displayed at that moment leaves a ghost. If I don't resize, there's no ghost effect. (nvidia geforce4 mx in a dual 1G with a 22" cinema).
Does this work in a default install?
I haven't installed the developers tools cd -- not much room on my hard drive &
I've read horror stories about it taking hours & hours only to not work in the end.
On my system, my /System/Library/Preferences directory doesn't seem to have anything
about the terminal, though I do have a ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
file. My understanding is that this "defaults" command is a tool for editing the XML
configuration files, yes?
Assuming that is the case, I'm poking around the plist file but I don't see anything useful about opacity. I *do* see how to override your default shell (hmm, I've been meaning to learn zsh...), but that's for later. Do you need to have something like the devel tools disc installed to mess around with terminal transparency settings, or am I just not looking in the right places?
Does this work in a default install?
Yes, just type the command at the terminal...
Does this work in a default install?
Ahh, of course. And of course I didn't actually try running the command to see what would happen... :)
Oh well, cool trick, I definitely like this. Thanks!
Does this work in a default install?
Try the program Tinkertool.
Transparent Scrollbars and ghosting
I find it quite annoying that the scrollbars cannot be "transparent-ized" even if Terminal is set to 100% transparency. It's pretty ugly to have nothing but a scrollbar and titlebar hanging in mid-air. If this was implemented in the Public Beta, is there a way to get it back?
Warning: in MacOS X (10.2), this hack breaks the terminal
I attempted to use this hack on the terminal in MacOS 10.2. DON'T DO THIS!!! (you can change the transparency in the Windows Settings item in the Terminal menu. Select "colors" and set the transparency from there.
Warning: in MacOS X (10.2), this hack breaks the terminal
i have 10.2.2 (or 10.2.3 devp.) and this does not make it crash. maybe they have fixed it with .2 update.
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