"Ghost text" in terminal, Yosemite + TotalTerminal (formerly Visor)

There's "ghostet text" in my terminal (see screenshot), and I'm hoping someone knows how to fix this…

Turning background transpareny off fixes the problem, but it's not a solution which I'm a fan of.

I tried cranking the opacity up to 100 % (thus turning transparency off), ran some commands, and turned the opacity back to 75 %, which made the ghosting appear yet again.

I love working in the terminal, and really hope someone have a suggestion for a fix :)

Specs which might be relevant:

• OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
• Macbook Pro 8.1 (early 2011)
• Integrated graphics
• Using TotalTerminal 1.5.4

Solution 1:

More recently in the thread linked to above, the developer of TotalTerminal replied:

darwin - Sep '15

TotalTerminal is not going to work on El Capitan without System Integrity Protection disabled. That is why I stopped developing it and switched personally > to iTerm2. I'm sorry, but I won't fix this one.

http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/text-burn-in-when-using-transparent-backgrounds-since-yosemite/2849/11

So it looks like we're out of luck, at least for now. I've noticed the ghosting for a while, and right now I'm actually running TotalTerminal on El Capitan (with SIP disabled I guess), and would love to keep using it, but it sounds like I'll have to take it with this little wart or not at all.

Solution 2:

This one helped me:

Open your Terminal preferences, go to Profiles > Window > Background (Color & Effects), and set a light blur.

I use 30% to keep anything in the background from disturbing the readability of thin fonts on an already translucent window, so I never noticed the "burn-in" effect when moving to Yosemite.

^{Source: http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/text-burn-in-when-using-transparent-backgrounds-since-yosemite/2849}

However I set blur to 1% and "ghost" text disappeared.