Enable a background image on top of an acrylic brush

[SJang1]

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18908.1000]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): commit id d24d647 and 71e19cd tested.

Steps to reproduce

add "backgroundImage" to profiles.

Expected behavior

Backgroung Image changes to what I have selected.

Actual behavior

Only Powershell works as expected, cmd, ubuntu, ... doesn't work like image I've pasted. (Just stays as normal)

[Summon528]

The current implementation of background image requires you to disable acrylic

[mdtauk]

When a background image is set, the acrylic should not be disabled. Instead the acrylic brush should change from a backdrop host one, to an in app one. This will then blur the background image and not show what is behind the window

[Summon528]

When a background image is set, the acrylic should not be disabled. Instead the acrylic brush should change from a backdrop host one, to an in app one. This will then blur the background image and not show what is behind the window

Yeah that is the ideal solution. However this is an unimplemented feature, rather than a bug for now. Core dev did mention to file a follow-up issue for this feature #853 (review) but apparently that has not been done yet

[zadjii-msft]

Congratulations, this is now that follow-up

[DHowett-MSFT]

Thought: to make this a little better, we might want to implement something like "background stacks" -- so you can specify:

background: [
  { ... acrylic host backdrop ... }
  { ... image tux.exe ... }
  { ... acrylic app-backdrop ... }
]

Marking this as Issue-Feature?

[isaacrlevin]

If I am following this, the following experience is not supported.

• Image with transparent background over a solid background

I have tried a few combinations of settings to no avail

[DHowett-MSFT]

Indeed. This will hopefully fix that issue as well.

[mdtauk]

On top of acrylic, it is more of a watermark. It would also need a placement option.

[Jaykul]

We definitely need a placement option

[ghost]

🎉This issue was addressed in #1107, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v0.3.2142.0.:tada:

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