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Ch0p
Ch0p

Reputation: 21

i3wm: How do I set real transparency for terminal with urxvt?

i am using Debian 9.9 stretch and have installed i3 and urxvt. I was able to make my console transparent but when I open a terminal and make it small so I can move it around, the transparent background is just updating slow and is not "real transparent"

This is my ~/.Xdefaults file

Does anyone has a solution ? :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8602

Answers (4)

Fco Javier Balón
Fco Javier Balón

Reputation: 465

You must have a composite manager like xcompgr or compton installed on your system.

Then, you can add color transparency in:

URxvt.depth: 32
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/cccc

Be careful, the URxvt.transparent field must be false

Upvotes: 1

Claudio Roncaglio
Claudio Roncaglio

Reputation: 21

On my Debian I've added the sequent in the .Xresources:

! Setting transparency and background                                                                                                                                       
URxvt*depth:      32                                                                                                                                                        
URxvt.background: [85]#282828

Upvotes: 2

Lex
Lex

Reputation: 335

add this into your .bashrc

#[ -n "$XTERM_VERSION" ] && transset --id "$WINDOWID" 0.7 >/dev/null

before you do this, please install xtransset and xcompmgr

It works for xterm. You may try it.

More detail please read this

Upvotes: 0

kudo_shinichi
kudo_shinichi

Reputation: 314

Can you try this (add the below to lines to the Xdefaults file):

urxvt*fading:           10

urxvt*fadeColor:        #000000

Upvotes: 0

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