Matplotlib: How to make the background transparent?

Question

I came across ways to make the plot itself transparent, but how do I make the background transparent? Is there a way to do this without Qt? I want the plot to be over the background window, for example, say I'm running Chrome, I want the plot to be over the chrome window, with its contents visible.

Answer 1

If you save the plot as an image you can set the background to be transparent

myploy.savefig('plotname.png', transparent=True)