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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:00:46 +0000Customize terminal background opacity and text color in i3https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/ Hello, I was a tutorial video on i3 on youtube titled "i3 Window Manager Overview" and noticed the speaker had a transparent terminal background and his text was green. I was wondering if anyone here knows how they were able to do that? I didn't post the link because I don't know if posting links is allowed. I took a look at the i3 Documentation and found the following sections but they didn't seem to be what I was looking for: 4.16. Changing colors You can change all colors which i3 uses to draw the window decorations. 4.2. Fonts i3 has support for both X core fonts and FreeType fonts (through Pango) to render window titles. To generate an X core font description, you can use xfontsel(1). To see special characters (Unicode), you need to use a font which supports the ISO-10646 encoding. A FreeType font description is composed by a font family, a style, a weight, a variant, a stretch and a size. FreeType fonts support right-to-left rendering and contain often more Unicode glyphs than X core fonts. If i3 cannot open the configured font, it will output an error in the logfile and fall back to a working font.Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:51:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/Comment by mechpro for Hello, I was a tutorial video on i3 on youtube titled "i3 Window Manager Overview" and noticed the speaker had a transparent terminal background and his text was green. I was wondering if anyone here knows how they were able to do that? I didn't post the link because I don't know if posting links is allowed. I took a look at the i3 Documentation and found the following sections but they didn't seem to be what I was looking for: 4.16. Changing colors You can change all colors which i3 uses to draw the window decorations. 4.2. Fonts i3 has support for both X core fonts and FreeType fonts (through Pango) to render window titles. To generate an X core font description, you can use xfontsel(1). To see special characters (Unicode), you need to use a font which supports the ISO-10646 encoding. A FreeType font description is composed by a font family, a style, a weight, a variant, a stretch and a size. FreeType fonts support right-to-left rendering and contain often more Unicode glyphs than X core fonts. If i3 cannot open the configured font, it will output an error in the logfile and fall back to a working font. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/?comment=6294#comment-6294Thank you, you were right (as usual)Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:00:46 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/?comment=6294#comment-6294Comment by Adaephon for Hello, I was a tutorial video on i3 on youtube titled "i3 Window Manager Overview" and noticed the speaker had a transparent terminal background and his text was green. I was wondering if anyone here knows how they were able to do that? I didn't post the link because I don't know if posting links is allowed. I took a look at the i3 Documentation and found the following sections but they didn't seem to be what I was looking for: 4.16. Changing colors You can change all colors which i3 uses to draw the window decorations. 4.2. Fonts i3 has support for both X core fonts and FreeType fonts (through Pango) to render window titles. To generate an X core font description, you can use xfontsel(1). To see special characters (Unicode), you need to use a font which supports the ISO-10646 encoding. A FreeType font description is composed by a font family, a style, a weight, a variant, a stretch and a size. FreeType fonts support right-to-left rendering and contain often more Unicode glyphs than X core fonts. If i3 cannot open the configured font, it will output an error in the logfile and fall back to a working font. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/?comment=6293#comment-6293The customization of the terminal depends on the terminal emulator but it has nothing to do with i3 and as such is off-topic here. But it should be easy to find the answer on the Internet. If you are unsure what terminal emulator you are using try running `ps $PPID` in a new terminal.Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:23:05 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6284/customize-terminal-background-opacity-and-text-color-in-i3/?comment=6293#comment-6293