Transparent konsole in qubes 4.1

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My multitasking brain loves transparent consoles. It is somehow soothing. Due to some bug or missing feature in qubes graphic system, only konsole’s in dom0 can handle transparencies. In an app-vm, I get “This color scheme uses a transparent background which does not appear to be supported on your desktop” ,
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But transparencies work, when I move the konsole. I got to googling (on duckduckgo) and there is a workaround that works great.

You simply do step 4 (step 1 - 3 not needed) for each konsole in each running app-vm you run konsole’s in. Then, you get transparent konsoles!!! And it survives reboots etc. Anyway step 4 from configuration - How do I make a window transparent in KDE? - Ask Ubuntu

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i may be blind, but as far as I can see there is no Step 4 in that link? has link changed ?

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hmm, sorry i read the page wrong…it’s not the 4th step, it’s the post below step 3: configuration - How do I make a window transparent in KDE? - Ask Ubuntu

I ca’nt edit the original post any more either.

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