title: How to make a tkinter Label background transparent?
body: <p>I have a window with a label as my frame. I did this because i wanted an image in the  background. But now im having trouble with the other labels i have used. The other labels i have used to actually labeled things dont have a transparent background. Is there a way to make the background of these labels transparent?</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-python prettyprint-override"><code>import Tkinter as tk
  
  root = tk.Tk()
  root.title('background image')
  
  image1 = Tk.PhotoImage(file='image_name.gif')
  
  # get the image size
  w = image1.width()
  h = image1.height()
  
  # make the root window the size of the image
  root.geometry("%dx%d" % (w, h))
  
  # root has no image argument, so use a label as a panel
  panel1 = tk.Label(root, image=image1)
  panel1.pack(side='top', fill='both', expand='yes')
  
  # put a button/label on the image panel to test it
  label1 = tk.Label(panel1, text='here i am')
  label1.pack(side=Top)
  
  button2 = tk.Button(panel1, text='button2')
  button2.pack(side='top')
  
  # start the event loop
  root.mainloop()
  </code></pre>