Confirmed that the suggested css workaround does indeed fix the problem. Test case:
$ cat > /tmp/config <<EOF [layouts] [[test]] [[[window0]]] parent = "" type = Window [[[child0]]] parent = window0 type = HPaned [[[child1]]] parent = child0 type = Terminal [[[child2]]] parent = child0 type = Terminal EOF ### Broken behavior: $ terminator --no-dbus --config /tmp/config --layout test
### Fixed behavior: $ sed -i 's/background-color: alpha(@theme_bg_color,0); }/background-color: white; }/' /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/terminator.py $ terminator --no-dbus --config /tmp/config --layout test
Confirmed that the suggested css workaround does indeed fix the problem. Test case:
$ cat > /tmp/config <<EOF
[layouts]
[[test]]
[[[window0]]]
parent = ""
type = Window
[[[child0]]]
parent = window0
type = HPaned
[[[child1]]]
parent = child0
type = Terminal
[[[child2]]]
parent = child0
type = Terminal
EOF
### Broken behavior:
$ terminator --no-dbus --config /tmp/config --layout test
### Fixed behavior: color: alpha(@ theme_bg_ color,0) ; }/background-color: white; }/' /usr/share/ terminator/ terminatorlib/ terminator. py
$ sed -i 's/background-
$ terminator --no-dbus --config /tmp/config --layout test