Hello,
I’m running ubuntu MATE 15.04 and so far i really love this distro. The stability and the ease customization features make me appreciate the hard work from development teams and communities. 
But i have some minor problems, how do you enable true transparency in tilda? i can get tilda showing transparency, but turns out it only copy the desktop wallpaper, even when i opening a program. i already search the internet but it only said you need to enable composition in window manager,i did that, in fact i’m using compiz and it enabled by default. I need this transparency because my monitor is not big and i want to learn bash scripting and console command with ease. (like i can read the script from the web browser with the transparency while i typed it in terminal.)
thank you, i really love this distro and its community! cheers
I just installed Ubuntu mate and had the same problem. I don’t know if it works for you but this is how I fixed it.
FIRST , make tilda terminal trasparent.
Right click Tilda terminal -> Select Preferences -> Appearences tab -> Check ‘Enable Transparency’ option and adjust Transparency percentage.
THEN, GO TO System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> MATE Tweak. Select Windows Option and check ‘Use Compositing’.
It fixed my tilda transperency issues.
Hope it works for you.
Cheers
I’m trying to set up Tilda at boot (boot applications) but I do not have transparency. I use compiz as windows manager but i tried to disable it after read you and I still a beautiful and plain black window.
But the strange thing is when I close it and relaunch it with terminal mate-> $ tilda , I have transparency like I want it.
Do you have any idea? may it can be Compiz at boot session?