How to make terminator transparent?

Question

I'm using a standard installation of Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity and I'd like to make terminator transparent as we can easily do for the standard terminal.

Is that possible ?

Answer 1

Right click anywhere in the terminator window and choose "Preferences", your desired option should be found under "Profiles"->Background":

Answer 2

Edit your configfile in $HOME like this (i.e. vi) :

vi .config/terminator/config

insert into [profiles] [[default]] the transparency settings:

background_darkness = 0.97 (or anything else between 0-1)
background_type = transparent

this works for me.