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I used to use the default gnome-terminal as my default Terminal, but because I want it to be see-through I have switched to the xfce4-terminal. But there is one problem, the text does not wrap, and I kind find anything in the Preferences that will allow me to wrap the text. So really that is my question, how do I wrap text in the Xfce 4 Terminal?

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:

Xfce 4 No Wrap


OS Information:

Description:    Ubuntu 15.04
Release:    15.04

Package Information:

xfce4-terminal:
  Installed: 0.6.3-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.6.3-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.3-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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  • Can you please add a screenshot? I have line breaks, without me having to do anything.
    – A.B.
    Jul 4, 2015 at 13:38
  • @A.B.: Ok, I have added a screenshot.
    – user364819
    Jul 4, 2015 at 13:47
  • Hmm, works fine with the same version, what is packaged?
    – A.B.
    Jul 4, 2015 at 14:33
  • When the problem occurs, after starting the command or until you change the window size?
    – A.B.
    Jul 4, 2015 at 14:40
  • @A.B.: Oh, that is just a custom alias of mine for apt-get policy... :D
    – user364819
    Jul 4, 2015 at 20:11

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xfce4-terminal uses vte to draw the actual terminal emulator and vte does not support line wrapping. With gnome3, gnome-terminal now uses vte3 and vte3 does support does line wrapping on resize events.

Note that vte is an old version without much development going on. So I would use gnome-terminal if you can.

To open the transparency settings go in Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Colors. Click on use transparent background.

Sources:

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  • vte3? gnome-terminal depends on libvte-2.91 >= 0.40.2 and xfce4-terminal depends on libvte9 >= 0.28
    – A.B.
    Jul 5, 2015 at 11:32
  • @A.B. I was also confused by the version numbers but check launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte3 Jul 5, 2015 at 11:55
  • Interesting, it's seems, that 2.91 is vte3
    – A.B.
    Jul 5, 2015 at 11:57
  • Anyway, good answer
    – A.B.
    Jul 5, 2015 at 11:57
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    There will be an xfce-terminal based on newest vte one day, see bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11207 for progress. Until then I'd also much rather recommend a frontend using a new vte (e.g. gnome-terminal) than xfce-terminal.
    – egmont
    Jul 7, 2015 at 11:02

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