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When building Paraview (headless) with the non-default options listed below, the following issues occur in some background properties when running a pvpython script that exports an image:

1. Background() method is ignored, i.e. the setting the color of the background does not work.
2. TransparentBackground=1 parameter in SaveScreenshot() is ignored, i.e. background is not exported transparently.

Building Paraview 5.9.1 is done on a Linux Mint Xfce 20.2 machine with installed packages libosmesa6-dev libgl1-mesa-dev and libxt-dev, which succeeds with 116 warnings and no errors, with the following cmake options set:

PARAVIEW_USE_PYTHON=ON
PARAVIEW_USE_QT=OFF
PARAVIEW_USE_QTHELP=OFF
PARAVIEW_USE_VTKM=OFF
VTK_USE_X=OFF
VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON

Steps to reproduce:

1. Build paraview with the options above
2. Download the two attached files
3. Run the following code with pvpython (replacing the 2nd and last line if necessary):

from paraview.simple import *
xdmf = XDMFReader(FileNames=[online_solution_y.xdmf'])
renderView1 = GetActiveViewOrCreate('RenderView')
xdmfDisplay = Show(xdmf, renderView1)
renderView1.ResetCamera()
renderView1.Background = [0.8333333333333, 0.6666666666666666, 0.0]
renderView1.Update()
SaveScreenshot('image.png', renderView1, ImageResolution=[594, 519], TransparentBackground=0)

Now:

1. Check if the background is orange.
2. Set TransparentBackground=1 in the code above and rerun, check that the background is transparent.

Can you reproduce either non-orange background or non-transparent background or both, in the last two steps?

online_solution_y.h5

online_solution_y.xdmf