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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:01:12 +0000How to remove the borders around transparent urxvt windows?https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/When opening multiple urxvt windows with transparency enabled, there are regions around the borders where transparency does not work. The border is black. How can this be fixed? Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:56:11 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/Answer by joepd for When opening multiple urxvt windows with transparency enabled, there are regions around the borders where transparency does not work. The border is black. How can this be fixed? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?answer=166#post-id-166The border around transparent urxvt windows is because urxvt is only dealing with the space it can really use itself. The leftover space is too small to put an extra character, so urxvt is not displaying it. i3 does not implement transparency, but leaves it to the applications to apply [pseudo-transparency](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-transparency). This results in a black border. At the moment, it is not likely that either urxvt will fix this behavior, and the i3 devs seem to have other priorities at the moment. Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:03:48 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?answer=166#post-id-166Comment by Michael for The border around transparent urxvt windows is because urxvt is only dealing with the space it can really use itself. The leftover space is too small to put an extra character, so urxvt is not displaying it. i3 does not implement transparency, but leaves it to the applications to apply <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-transparency">pseudo-transparency</a>. This results in a black border. At the moment, it is not likely that either urxvt will fix this behavior, and the i3 devs seem to have other priorities at the moment. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=167#comment-167note: the border is drawn by i3 because otherwise you have graphics corruption in that space in non-transparent setups. You can remove the relevant lines in the code for now. Also note: transparency is neither endorsed nor supported by the i3 devs, so we don’t care about transparency issues :).Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:53:36 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=167#comment-167Comment by Klaas for The border around transparent urxvt windows is because urxvt is only dealing with the space it can really use itself. The leftover space is too small to put an extra character, so urxvt is not displaying it. i3 does not implement transparency, but leaves it to the applications to apply <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-transparency">pseudo-transparency</a>. This results in a black border. At the moment, it is not likely that either urxvt will fix this behavior, and the i3 devs seem to have other priorities at the moment. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=174#comment-174An addition to the above: this is not an acceptable solution in general. An option would be to add something like 'for window [class="URxvt"] sizehints disable'. Awesome WM offer such an option for example. I may work on a patch for that sometime...Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:32:43 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=174#comment-174Comment by Klaas for The border around transparent urxvt windows is because urxvt is only dealing with the space it can really use itself. The leftover space is too small to put an extra character, so urxvt is not displaying it. i3 does not implement transparency, but leaves it to the applications to apply <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-transparency">pseudo-transparency</a>. This results in a black border. At the moment, it is not likely that either urxvt will fix this behavior, and the i3 devs seem to have other priorities at the moment. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=173#comment-173Actually, urxvt does seem to support window managers that do not honor its size hints now. I just did a short test by using URxvt.transparency and commenting out the part of i3 that handles the size increment hints (src/handlers.c 743 to 757). It works quite nicely.Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:45:28 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=173#comment-173Answer by teddyballgame for When opening multiple urxvt windows with transparency enabled, there are regions around the borders where transparency does not work. The border is black. How can this be fixed? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?answer=522#post-id-522EDIT: The latest version of i3 now ignores resize hints so this is not necessary.Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:53:27 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?answer=522#post-id-522Comment by Michael for EDIT: The latest version of i3 now ignores resize hints so this is not necessary. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=531#comment-531And "latest version" is a meaningless statement, so let’s say 4.3 instead :-).Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:01:12 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/165/how-to-remove-the-borders-around-transparent-urxvt-windows/?comment=531#comment-531