
You can set picom’s rendering backend using the backend setting in nf your options are xrender (the default) and glx. rounded corners: search the default nf for “Corners”.fading: search the default nf for “Fading”.shadows: search the default nf for “Shadows”.background blurring: search the default nf for “Background-Blurring”.I have intentionally covered only opacity in this guide, but wanted to at least give some pointers to anyone interested in other features. The picom compositor offers window background blurring, shadows, fading, and rounded corners in addition to opacity settings.
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See ArchWiki: Autostarting for how to autostart processes on other WMs and DEs. # Autostart picom when starting the i3 window manager The application-specific opacity syntax in the nf file looks like this: Use case: make your terminal emulator more transparent than your web browser (for example). If you want more customizability, the next section shows how to set specific opacities for specific window classes (read: applications). You can try something close to 1.0 for active windows, and something more transparent, perhaps 0.5, for inactive windows. Setting a global opacity for all windows is as simple as tweaking the values of active-opacity, inactive-opacity, and frame-opacity to your liking. Note that picom works in terms of opacity instead of transparency 1.0 is complete opacity (and no transparency) 0.0 is zero opacity (and complete transparency). Opacity-rule = [ "95:class_g = 'Alacritty' & focused", Inactive-opacity = 1.0 # Opacity of window titlebars and borders.įrame-opacity = 1.0 # Application-specific settings these override the default `active-opacity` Active-opacity = 1.0 # Default opacity of inactive windows.
