[HELP] Transparency about voidrice

[samuelhnrq]

Oh yes it was also not clear to me how to setup transparency,

I uncommented this line on .Xdefaults

voidrice/.Xdefaults

Line 33 in 0e171e7

!!URxvt.background: [70]#000000

My guess is that the 70 means alpha percentage?

I'm not sure if actually related, because I know uxrvt can do some background image trickery to simulate fake transparency, but I also enabled compton, on i3's config.

[duncan-f]

Thx for the answer, but i tried with the line you mentioned. No chance!
I tried with this too:

URxvt.background:    rbga(0, 0, 0, .7)

There's no way to make it work. I copied the compton.conf file from Luke's repo, couldn't make it work either.
@samosaara could you share with me your compton.conf file.

PS: so it leave me with one question, maybe there's a package i didn't install ? (i'm on gentoo x64)

[samuelhnrq]

I did not edit @LukeSmithxyz's compton config it is the same one of the repo. You do realize that compton is a dependency and a software itself that must be run and etc? Try killing it and running in non-daemon mode to ensure it's starting and working properly.

[LukeSmithxyz]

@duncan-f So the context I should give is that there's a bunch of commented junk in my config that I need to clean up. These lines:

URxvt.transparency: true
URxvt.shading: 35
URxvt.background: rbga(0, 0, 0, .7)

Are useless with i3 and urxvt due to compatibility problems. I've just used this on a non-i3 WM and didn't delete them. As @samosaara said, the proper way (and only one) to enable urxvt transparency on i3 is with compton (the config in this repo does it) and by uncommenting the line he mentioned (and yes, the number in the brackets is the alpha value).

Your question is a good one though, and I get it a lot. I'm thinking of creating a dialog settings menu in LARBS/this repo that will allow you to change settings such as transparency/use of pywal/etc. without have to figure it out. Either way, I'll probably add documentation to this effect in the next push.

[duncan-f]

I got it right thank you very much guys for your answers.
It was my bad, compton wasn't starting and i didn't realize it.

And for those who'll end up on this issue, i just used this:

URxvt.background: [75]#000000