Unable to make Inset background transparent

Question

The following code is the minimal version I managed to create. With my Mathematica 11.0.1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 I find with the code that there is some background for the Inset graphics that can not be made transparent. Is there a way to do this?

Show[
  Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}], 
  Graphics[
    Inset[
      Graphics[{Green, Disk[]}, Background -> None],
      {0.5, 0.5},
      {0, 0},
      0.2,
      Background -> None
    ],
    Background -> None
  ],
  Background -> None
]

In this specific case it is about removing the white space between the plotted line and the circle.

If I export the graphics as a pdf I get the following result with a gray background that I don't want. In Mathematica itself it manifests itself as a whitespace.

Edit: Happens with the Stylesheet StandardReport and not with a style-less notebook.

I don't get any gray background when I export to pdf on Windows 10. MMA version is 10.4 — Anjan Kumar, Feb 17 '17 at 11:35
No problems in v10.1.0 under Windows. Both the standard output and export to .GIF look as they should. — Mr.Wizard, Feb 17 '17 at 11:41
And what about the small whitespace between the circle and the line in Mathematica itself? — Maikel, Feb 17 '17 at 12:21
No problems with version 11.0.0 on Windows 7x64. Acrobat renders exported PDF as expected. — Alexey Popkov, Feb 17 '17 at 13:31
Seems to be only (or at least) happening with Stylesheet StandardReport, can someone confirm this? — Maikel, Feb 17 '17 at 13:56
@Maikel Yes, with StandardReport I can reproduce this. With that critical detail I believe this question is a duplicate of: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/78522/121 — Mr.Wizard, Feb 17 '17 at 14:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '17 at 14:35

You've got background from the stylesheet. Please try to remove it by using BaseStyle directive:

  g = Show[Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}], 
      Graphics[
          Inset[
            Graphics[{Green, Disk[]}, Background -> None], 
            {0.5, 0.5}, {0, 0}, 0.2, Background -> None, 
            BaseStyle -> {Background -> None}], 
   Background -> None], Background -> None]

Unable to make Inset background transparent

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