Tkinter, Transparent Background, Linux

Is there a way to get a transparent background in a Tkinter window on Linux? The only way I see currently is: import tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() root.overrideredirect(True) root

Solution 1:

Add this line:

root.wait_visibility(root)

before the "root.wm_attributes.." line as mentioned in this answer. It works for me on Ubuntu 16.04

Solution 2:

I'm pretty sure this is going to work.

root.wm_attributes("-alpha", 0.5)
root.wait_visibility(root)

Solution 3:

It worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20.1, Cinnamon Python 3.6

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
root.overrideredirect(True)
root.wait_visibility(root)
root.wm_attributes("-alpha", 0.5)
root.mainloop()