Terminal transparency in i3.

answered Apr 23 '14

thesoundman20
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I use terminator, and transparency is in the preferences.

answered Aug 14 '14

bchr
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updated Aug 14 '14

If you use compton, you can add the following line to your compton configuration file:

opacity-rule = ["85:class_g = 'Termite'"];

Just replace Termite by whatever your terminal emulator is, and 85 by the percentage of opacity you want.

answered Aug 13 '14

This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >100 is welcome to improve it.

to get a real transparency you can add to your .i3/config file the line: exec xcompmgr -c -f -n

and install xcompmgr, it seems to be present on every package manager like apt, entropy, yum, portage, pacman/aur and so on..

(Terminator transparency don't work as a full transparency on i3 without some compositing manager, by the way)