Ubuntu – Lubuntu Terminator does not have the option for background image

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I want to add a background picture to my Terminator terminals, but it won't let me.

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Should have done more digging. Apparently according to this article it's no longer possible as of version 1.90, and it is currently version 1.91

Then there's the second release which is 1.90. This is pretty solid, and should be usable as your daily driver with 99% of the gtk2 functionality. Of course the new libvte widget is much improved so you'll notice nice improvements in places. One thing we did lose (the missing 1%) in the port to gtk3 was the background image. This is not the Terminator projects fault. The libvte project chose to excise the capability to set an image as the background from the widget. I have figured out a way to add this back in, but that can wait till 2.1. We do however still have true transparency.

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You should not use PPA to get Terminator installed. You have to remove the problematic PPA with

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome-terminator/ppa

and then install the Terminator from universe pocket.

All you need is to enable this pocket and install package from it:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

And then use it as was planned:

$ terminator -v
terminator 1.91

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