How to make terminator transparent?

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 ?

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

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

vi $HOME/.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.

Right click on terminator screen

1. Click on Preferences
2. Click on Profiles tab
3. Under Profiles click on Background tab
4. Check Transparent background
5. Set the transparency (Optional)