Background opacity

[kovidgoyal]

Background opacity

[raspbeguy]

I really would like this feature to exist. I'll follow the glfw ticket.

[kovidgoyal]

There is no background opacity -- this is not supported by glfw the windowing toolkit kitty uses. glfw/glfw#197

[fennecdjay]

I'll give a look. Thanks for the precise answer.

[ibrokemypie]

If you use compton you can add opacity-rule = ["85:class_g = 'kitty'"]; to compton.conf to use compositor transparency as a workaround

[martsa1]

Upstream appears to have merged opacity, does that mean we can see opacity brought into Kitty?
glfw/glfw#197

[kovidgoyal]

Sure once a version of glfw with transparency is released adding transparency to kitty should be a trivial change -- about ten lines of code.

[n3k0lai]

For OSX users with chunkwm, modification in their .chunkwmrc utilizing commands similar to those referenced in koekeishiya/chunkwm#139 could accomplish this.

[kovidgoyal]

This is implemented in the win branch which will eventually become version 0.6.0