Synctex Highlights stack, completely obscure text about zathura

[dmadisetti]

Cool, fb2b5da

Transparency is defined on the highlight now. For transparency, must be in rgba format. e.g.

set highlight-active-color      rgba(0,188,0,0.5)

[sebastinas]

On GitLab by @dwap on Nov 8, 2019, 09:47

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Same problem here, can be very annoying when using sync. I am wondering: is it really a zathura problem, or is just zathura being called with multiple overlapping highlight areas? Is there any workaround? Reducing the transparency as mentioned is not really a solution, but maybe there is a way to just draw the borders of the rectangle somehow rather than playing with the highlight color? I don't see anything related in the config though.

[sebastinas]

Fixed thanks to #36

[sebastinas]

closed

[BachoSeven]

@sebastinas I'm currently experiencing this same problem with both normal search highlight and Synctex, on Zathura 0.5.5 with zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.4.1 on Arch Linux (but it's been happening for a few months) with DWM. I've tried de-activating picom but the compositor doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.

Any clues as to why it is happening?

[BachoSeven]

I think I got it, something must've changed in a (relatively) recent version regarding the configuration of the search highlight colors (highlight-color and highlight-active-color), I had them set to a simple HEX value while the default seems to be RGBA with 0.5 transparency.

I guess perhaps the fallback alpha value in this case shouldn't be 1 though(?)

[dmadisetti]

I've been having this issue for 1-2 months now, but the default seems to work strangely.