can't turn transparent bg solid

[folke]

can't turn transparent bg solid

[hansemschnokeloch]

Hi, I resolved this issue by slightly changing the background colour of kitty's colorscheme to get a different bg color in kitty and neovim (example: change #1a1b26 of tokyo night bg to #1a1b27 or #1a1b25). You won't notice any difference in kitty with a background opacity of 0.6.

[folke]

Are you using kitty with the tokyonight kitty theme?

If so, Kitty has a setting background_opacity, that makes a color that is the same as the terminal background color transparent.

[folke]

If not the above, then what does :au ColorScheme give? Most likely some autocommand that unsets guibg for Normal

[Chaitanyabsprip]

I am using kitty with the kitty_tokyonight_storm theme

[folke]

@Chaitanyabsprip do you have that specific kitty setting enabled? If so kitty will make the BG transparent. Nothing vim can do about that

[Chaitanyabsprip]

I did have the background_opacity as 0.6 in kitty.conf but why does that affect neovim configuration? They should be independent right?

[folke]

Nope, that is effectively what that setting in Kitty does. Vim doesn't render it transparent. It's Kitty that makes any color that is the same as the kitty bg color transparent. Since you're using the storm theme in kitty and the storm theme in vim, Kitty will make the vim bg color transparent. Try changing the kitty theme to something else (like the night style) and restart Kitty. Vim will properly have a background now. Please read the Kitty documentation. It explains it very well.

I'll close this, since this is not related to vim at all.