It was set to transparent. I don't know how. I basically deleted my pref file and that fixed it, but it's a pain because now I have to reload all my actions and styles. I saved the previous pref as a bak file though so I just reinstalled it, and tried again, and I cannot see where  there is anything to change the transparent background to white and save that as a default. I haven't a clue where you see the clipboard contents or color choices. So where do I change it from transparent?

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