Based on the answer to I can't set background image on Gnome Terminal 3.14 I have given up trying to set a background on gnome terminal. In the link (or maybe in a link from that link) it is mentioned that xfce-terminal will allow a background image. However the only package I can find in the Ubuntu 16.04 repos is xfce4-terminal which doesn't seem to allow it either.
Is there a terminal out there that will let me easily set a background image that runs in Gnome on Ubuntu 16.04 or do I need to switch Desktop Environments completely?
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You can always run any of the terminal emulators in any of the desktop environments, there's no need to switch desktop just for that. E.g. you can run konsole (KDE's terminal emultor) under the GNOME desktop, or gnome-terminal under KDE, etc.
Newer gnome-terminal version have indeed removed the support for background image. Notable terminal emulators that use the same terminal emulation widget as gnome-terminal (namely vte, preferably the GTK+-3 based version rather than the old unmaintained and quite buggy GTK+-2 based one) and do support background image are Terminix as well as xfce4-terminal version 0.8, both are easy to compile and install on Xenial.
There are plenty of other terminal emulators (not based on vte) out there, I'm sorry but I cannot tell which ones support background image (if any) of out the box on Xenial.
I'm currently using Qterminal and it has a setting in the preferences, I use Lubuntu with LXQT and it's extremely customizable with the help of various other programs.
sudo apt install qterminalXfce4 terminal does allow setting background. I don't know how you tried to set a background. Here is the procedure.
Open the terminal after installing it.
From Menu -> Edit -> Preferences, Go to Appearance Tab.
Now under Background section, select Background Image. This will enable two more fields. One is for selecting the background image file and another is for setting the scaling option of the image. Browse to the file to set an image.
Here is an image of the preference dialog
And here is an image of xfce4 terminal with background
