Transparency and saved window layout, is it possible?

answered 2014-07-03 22:49:55 +0000

Michael Rose
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What you can do is make every terminal window have the same transparency by automatically setting it transparent when its started.

Example

transset -i windowid .numbernumber will set window id to numbernumber percent transperent

so a shell function called trans that runs transset -i on the result of xdotool getactivewindow and the argument to the function

in fish shell transset -i (xdotool getactivewindow) .{$argv}

is sufficient to enable you to run trans numbernumber and change the transparency of the current application

In your i3config then you may add a line like so

for_window [class="Lxterminal"] exec "trans .80"

with the proper window class for your application and the desired transparency

This means for every window which matches the window class run the desired command or command.