How do I make the background of transparent Terminal windows blurry in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04?

Question

This is what gnome-terminal looks like currently:

I want the background of the terminal window to be blurred, roughly like so:

Solution

sadly it's not currently possible, though efforts are being made to make it possible ATM. In the meantime, I think Ubuntu MATE with compiz can blur behind windows :)

To expand on this answer, KDE plasma now blurs beautifully behind windows and has a pretty cool theming system too :

Here's my desktop ! you can check out how I achieved it here : https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/8idl9p/plasma_shameless_macos_clone/

Comments

[Redbob]

You must improve your question. Do you wanna to turn your terminal windows transparent, is it?

[pomsky]

Do you mean opaque?

[Arpit Bharti]

edited, not looking for opaque, but something like aero from windows 7.

[pomsky]

Thanks for clarifying what you want exactly. My answer doesn't meet your need, and so I'm going to delete it. I reckon you'll have to use some specific gtk+ themes to achieve your goal. A somewhat similar effect you can get by using Windows Blur Effects extension. It blurs everything but the active window(s).

[pomsky]

The Alpha Blur option in the Blur plugin in Compiz should do the trick, but I couldn't make it work in my system. You can read about it here: wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Blur

[lunarfyre]

Just throwing this out there, konsole can be configured to have a blurred background, I am not sure if you need kwin for that effect though.