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opened 2026-01-31 08:16:15 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
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Originally created by @brunoCCOS on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024).

Windows Terminal version

1.21.2911.0

Windows build number

Win 10 22H2 - 19045.5131

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open windows terminal
  2. Go to setting
  3. go to profile>appearence
  4. turn acrylic on
  5. save

Expected Behavior

The background just starts to be transparent a

Actual Behavior

I get a solid background color. Notice that transparency works if i disable acrylic
Image

But with acrylic turned on it just get full solid color

Image

Acrylic was working just until yesterday, i booted the pc today and suddenly does not work anymore. I

This is the settings.json i'm using, in particular the profile "Ubuntu"

{
"$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation",
"$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
"actions":
[
{
"command":
{
"action": "copy",
"singleLine": false
},
"id": "User.copy.644BA8F2",
"keys": "ctrl+c"
},
{
"command": "paste",
"id": "User.paste",
"keys": "ctrl+v"
},
{
"command": "find",
"id": "User.find",
"keys": "ctrl+shift+f"
},
{
"command":
{
"action": "splitPane",
"split": "auto",
"splitMode": "duplicate"
},
"id": "User.splitPane.A6751878",
"keys": "alt+shift+d"
}
],
"copyFormatting": "none",
"copyOnSelect": false,
"defaultProfile": "{4ff56d04-d9cf-57ea-bae2-ad396374e7e3}",
"newTabMenu":
[
{
"type": "remainingProfiles"
}
],
"profiles":
{
"defaults":
{
"startingDirectory": null
},
"list":
[
{
"commandline": "%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe",
"guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Windows PowerShell",
"opacity": 71,
"useAcrylic": true
},
{
"commandline": "%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe",
"guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Prompt de comando"
},
{
"guid": "{17bf3de4-5353-5709-bcf9-835bd952a95e}",
"hidden": true,
"name": "Ubuntu-22.04",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl"
},
{
"guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
},
{
"guid": "{8bd89bb2-28eb-5439-a6c3-641b5181fcd3}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"guid": "{3b7bcb5c-474f-50ad-b4ce-b4de125e0a50}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Developer PowerShell for VS 2022",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"backgroundImage": null,
"backgroundImageOpacity": 0.09,
"colorScheme": "cyberdream",
"commandline": "wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04",
"font":
{
"builtinGlyphs": true,
"colorGlyphs": true,
"face": "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono"
},
"guid": "{4ff56d04-d9cf-57ea-bae2-ad396374e7e3}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Ubuntu",
"opacity": 77,
"padding": "5",
"source": "CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu22.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc",
"startingDirectory": "~",
"tabTitle": "Ubuntu",
"useAcrylic": true
}
]
},
"rendering.graphicsAPI": "direct3d11",
"schemes":
[
{
"background": "#16181A",
"black": "#16181A",
"blue": "#5EA1FF",
"brightBlack": "#3C4048",
"brightBlue": "#5EA1FF",
"brightCyan": "#5EF1FF",
"brightGreen": "#5EFF6C",
"brightPurple": "#BD5EFF",
"brightRed": "#FF6E5E",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#F1FF5E",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#5EF1FF",
"foreground": "#FFFFFF",
"green": "#5EFF6C",
"name": "cyberdream",
"purple": "#BD5EFF",
"red": "#FF6E5E",
"selectionBackground": "#3C4048",
"white": "#FFFFFF",
"yellow": "#F1FF5E"
}
],
"themes": [],
"useAcrylicInTabRow": true
}

Originally created by @brunoCCOS on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024). ### Windows Terminal version 1.21.2911.0 ### Windows build number Win 10 22H2 - 19045.5131 ### Other Software _No response_ ### Steps to reproduce 1. Open windows terminal 2. Go to setting 3. go to profile>appearence 4. turn acrylic on 5. save ### Expected Behavior The background just starts to be transparent a ### Actual Behavior I get a solid background color. Notice that transparency works if i disable acrylic ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/16999c10-5547-4d7e-a7bc-1c36680e1ac1) But with acrylic turned on it just get full solid color ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b45a0c96-2739-41c6-83b4-ba2b95164b6d) Acrylic was working just until yesterday, i booted the pc today and suddenly does not work anymore. I This is the settings.json i'm using, in particular the profile "Ubuntu" { "$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation", "$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema", "actions": [ { "command": { "action": "copy", "singleLine": false }, "id": "User.copy.644BA8F2", "keys": "ctrl+c" }, { "command": "paste", "id": "User.paste", "keys": "ctrl+v" }, { "command": "find", "id": "User.find", "keys": "ctrl+shift+f" }, { "command": { "action": "splitPane", "split": "auto", "splitMode": "duplicate" }, "id": "User.splitPane.A6751878", "keys": "alt+shift+d" } ], "copyFormatting": "none", "copyOnSelect": false, "defaultProfile": "{4ff56d04-d9cf-57ea-bae2-ad396374e7e3}", "newTabMenu": [ { "type": "remainingProfiles" } ], "profiles": { "defaults": { "startingDirectory": null }, "list": [ { "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}", "hidden": false, "name": "Windows PowerShell", "opacity": 71, "useAcrylic": true }, { "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\cmd.exe", "guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}", "hidden": false, "name": "Prompt de comando" }, { "guid": "{17bf3de4-5353-5709-bcf9-835bd952a95e}", "hidden": true, "name": "Ubuntu-22.04", "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl" }, { "guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}", "hidden": false, "name": "Azure Cloud Shell", "source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure" }, { "guid": "{8bd89bb2-28eb-5439-a6c3-641b5181fcd3}", "hidden": false, "name": "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022", "source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio" }, { "guid": "{3b7bcb5c-474f-50ad-b4ce-b4de125e0a50}", "hidden": false, "name": "Developer PowerShell for VS 2022", "source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio" }, { "backgroundImage": null, "backgroundImageOpacity": 0.09, "colorScheme": "cyberdream", "commandline": "wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04", "font": { "builtinGlyphs": true, "colorGlyphs": true, "face": "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono" }, "guid": "{4ff56d04-d9cf-57ea-bae2-ad396374e7e3}", "hidden": false, "name": "Ubuntu", "opacity": 77, "padding": "5", "source": "CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu22.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc", "startingDirectory": "~", "tabTitle": "Ubuntu", "useAcrylic": true } ] }, "rendering.graphicsAPI": "direct3d11", "schemes": [ { "background": "#16181A", "black": "#16181A", "blue": "#5EA1FF", "brightBlack": "#3C4048", "brightBlue": "#5EA1FF", "brightCyan": "#5EF1FF", "brightGreen": "#5EFF6C", "brightPurple": "#BD5EFF", "brightRed": "#FF6E5E", "brightWhite": "#FFFFFF", "brightYellow": "#F1FF5E", "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF", "cyan": "#5EF1FF", "foreground": "#FFFFFF", "green": "#5EFF6C", "name": "cyberdream", "purple": "#BD5EFF", "red": "#FF6E5E", "selectionBackground": "#3C4048", "white": "#FFFFFF", "yellow": "#F1FF5E" } ], "themes": [], "useAcrylicInTabRow": true }
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2024):

  • Are you on battery power/?
  • Are you accessing the machine over RDP?
  • is the Windows OS setting "Transparency effects" is turned on (Windows Settings -> Customize -> Colors -> Transparency effects)
  • Does HostBackdrop acrylic work in any other apps? (The WinUI 2 Gallery has an example: winui2gallery://item/Acrylic)

If acrylic stopped working, it's probably for some reason out of our own control, and there's a lot of things that control if acrylic works or not.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2024): * Are you on battery power/? * Are you accessing the machine over RDP? * is the Windows OS setting "Transparency effects" is turned on (Windows Settings -> Customize -> Colors -> Transparency effects) * Does HostBackdrop acrylic work in any other apps? (The WinUI 2 Gallery has an example: `winui2gallery://item/Acrylic`) If acrylic stopped working, it's probably for some reason out of our own control, and there's a lot of things that control if acrylic works or not.
claunia commented 2026-01-31 08:16:16 +00:00
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@toastard commented on GitHub (Nov 24, 2024):

I can confirm that I am also experiencing the same issue, which started approximately this month and can be replicated.

The transparency effect functions correctly; however, when acrylic is enabled, it completely disables the transparency effect.

Environment
Windows Terminal version: 1.21.3231.0 (Microsoft Corporation)
OS Information: Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Are you on battery power/?
No, I am using a desktop PC in full performance mode.

Are you accessing the machine over RDP?
No, I am using the machine locally.

is the Windows OS setting "Transparency effects" is turned on (Windows Settings -> Customize -> Colors -> Transparency effects)
Yes, "Transparency effects" is enabled (Settings -> Personalization -> Colors -> Transparency effects). I have also run the sfc /scannow command for verification.

Does HostBackdrop acrylic work in any other apps? (The WinUI 2 Gallery has an example: winui2gallery://item/Acrylic)
I am unable to test this currently with the WinUI 2 Gallery (winui2gallery://item/Acrylic).

@toastard commented on GitHub (Nov 24, 2024): I can confirm that I am also experiencing the same issue, which started approximately this month and can be replicated. The transparency effect functions correctly; however, when acrylic is enabled, it completely disables the transparency effect. **Environment** Windows Terminal version: 1.21.3231.0 (Microsoft Corporation) OS Information: Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045 **Are you on battery power/?** No, I am using a desktop PC in full performance mode. **Are you accessing the machine over RDP?** No, I am using the machine locally. **is the Windows OS setting "Transparency effects" is turned on (Windows Settings -> Customize -> Colors -> Transparency effects)** Yes, "Transparency effects" is enabled (Settings -> Personalization -> Colors -> Transparency effects). I have also run the sfc /scannow command for verification. **Does HostBackdrop acrylic work in any other apps? (The WinUI 2 Gallery has an example: winui2gallery://item/Acrylic)** I am unable to test this currently with the WinUI 2 Gallery (winui2gallery://item/Acrylic).
claunia commented 2026-01-31 08:16:17 +00:00
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@avdaredevil commented on GitHub (May 8, 2025):

I found that in my case it was related to my computer being in battery/energy saver mode.

Check Power & battery > System to see if your machine might have Energy Saver turned on!

@avdaredevil commented on GitHub (May 8, 2025): I found that in my case it was related to my computer being in battery/energy saver mode. Check `Power & battery > System` to see if your machine might have `Energy Saver` turned on!
claunia commented 2026-01-31 08:16:17 +00:00
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@public-space commented on GitHub (Aug 11, 2025):

I had the same problem and was super confused.
With one of the updates in the late winter/early spring I encountered the same issue.

Somehow Energy Saver Mode got permanently turned on.
Turning this off got the acrylic to work!

(After I spent hours checking my settings all over and trying to configure it. 😅)

🔋Check your WiFi/Battery/Audio bar on the far right of your task bar
⚡Turn off Energy Saver!
💪🏻Then it should work :)

@public-space commented on GitHub (Aug 11, 2025): I had the same problem and was super confused. With one of the updates in the late winter/early spring I encountered the same issue. Somehow Energy Saver Mode got permanently turned on. Turning this off got the acrylic to work! _(After I spent hours checking my settings all over and trying to configure it. 😅)_ 🔋**Check your WiFi/Battery/Audio bar on the far right of your task bar** ⚡**Turn off Energy Saver!** 💪🏻**Then it should work :)**
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