Created attachment 3027 compositor issues. Enabling the compositor within the window manager tweaks seems to disable the terminal transparency settings. With compositor enabled, the terminal transparency settings are no longer applied. This disables the ability to have an in-focus terminal window show up as semi-transparent, yet have all other windows that are in-focus show up fully opaque. screenshot is attached.
this bug persists until xfce has been restarted. after xfce restart, terminal settings with compositor running are OK.
That's a terminal issue, not window manager.