https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:51:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/ How to make i3wm statusbar background transparent? I haven't found a way when trying to write the colour number in various ways.Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:02:55 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6521#comment-6521I don't think this is possible. By the way, what behind the status bar do you hope to see? I think the background is the only possibility.Sat, 29 Aug 2015 03:24:39 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6521#comment-6521https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6522#post-id-6522i3bar itself doesn't support transparency. A compositor can be used to make it transparent, but this will affect the entire bar, including text etc. – making only the background transparent isn't possible this way. However, using i3-gaps you can use RGBA colors for all colors in i3bar and use transparency that way. See the README on Github for details on how to enable it (and caveats).Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:24:12 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6522#post-id-6522https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6782#post-id-6782 You can make i3-bar not to mention tab bars transparent with compton if you like see https://gist.github.com/michaelmrose/9ae00854ab5674146256 You can now even make windows on hidden tab pages transparent so they don't show through behind the current windowFri, 02 Oct 2015 21:21:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6782#post-id-6782https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6978#comment-6978FYI, i3-gaps now supports i3bar transparency using RGBA colors. In i3 this isn't possible due to a few very annoying reasons like cairo bugs.Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:51:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6978#comment-6978https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6977#comment-6977That's not what I mean. You can only set the overall i3bar transparency. If you want the background to be completely transparent, text to be 50% transparent and workspace icons to be 25% transparent, you're hitting a wall. In the compositor you cannot reference individual elements.Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:50:54 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6977#comment-6977https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6976#comment-6976for id in `xwininfo -all -root | grep 'i3bar for output' | sed 's#\s\+# #g' | cut -d " " -f2`; do transset -i $id > /dev/null; doneSat, 17 Oct 2015 09:25:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6976#comment-6976https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6784#comment-6784You can make the bar transparent, but you can't make the background of the bar transparent. I'm working on it though, the question is just whether it will be merged... :)Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:46:46 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?comment=6784#comment-6784https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6520#post-id-6520I don't think this is possible. By the way, what behind the status bar do you hope to see? I think the background is the only possibility.Sat, 29 Aug 2015 03:24:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6519/how-to-make-i3wm-statusbar-transparent/?answer=6520#post-id-6520