Cygwin – transparent terminal

New version of Cygwin is distributed with resizable Cygwin Terminal.

Cygwin Terminal is configurable and it has some neat features like transparency.

In order to turn on transparency click the left top icon and select Options.

Change transparency in section Look – Transparency.

Click Ok or Apply.

4 Replies to “Cygwin – transparent terminal

  1. Cool I was looking for this feature!

    BTW:
    Dude your $PS1 looks awesome!
    Could you please send me the code?

  2. add codes “Transparency=80” in .mintty under ~/, the 80 is the degree of transparency

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