[LARBS] Transparency not working after using pywal

[emorevival]

Hey Luke,

I'm on a fresh Archlabs install and just used pywal on a wallpaper I have. Everything applied well, even in st, but now the windows aren't transparent like they were before. I added *.alpha = 255 (tried other values too) to my .Xresources, I've checked the st config file and recompiled that as well but it's still the same.

I haven't changed the default compton config that is installed by LARBS.

edit: just to clarify, it was working before I used pywal

[emorevival]

hmmm, transparency seems to work on (popup?) terminal windows. Your pacman updates module notified me that there are 8 updates and when I clicked it the window that was opened by it had the exact transparency I had set in .Xresources.

the dropdown terminal is also transparent.

Maybe I need to call st by a different command now? Since only the one called by mod+Enter doesn't have transparency

[ask6155]

Only my popup terminal have transparency. Rest all don't. Happened with the latest update.

[emorevival]

my exact issue too except for me the rest of them do too but only if you launch a specific cli program through a keybinding like $mod+r

[jpnadas]

I don't use LARBS, but I have just updated luke's st build on my arch install and transparency stopped working for me as well (I set alpha via .Xresources).

[LukeSmithxyz]

In every case, your xrdb settings are set in a way inconsistent or overriding of the settings of st. I have no clue what the defaults are for Archlabs or Manjaro or any of those other distributions, so if anyone could give me the output of xrdb -query or their ~/.Xdefaults or ~/Xresources files, I could figure it out.

@jpnadas Your problem is due to a recent upgrade. Now, the alpha value required should be a floating point between 0 (fully transparent) and 1 (fully opaque). Change that and it should be fixed.

[emorevival]

Here is the output of xrdb -query and here's my ~/Xresources file

[LukeSmithxyz]

What composite manager do you have running?

[emorevival]

compton, this is my compton.conf

[LukeSmithxyz]

I'm not able to replicate this problem even with pywal and your compton config. Are you using the most recent build?

Exactly what wal command are you running?

[emorevival]

This is the output of st -v:

st 0.8.1 (c) 2010-2016 st engineers

for pywal I'm running wal -i image, through the "bw" shortcut in your ranger config in LARBS

(and I am running the latest build from the AUR, just double checked it)

[jpnadas]

@jpnadas Your problem is due to a recent upgrade. Now, the alpha value required should be a floating point between 0 (fully transparent) and 1 (fully opaque). Change that and it should be fixed.

Thanks @LukeSmithxyz, that did it!

[jpnadas]

Here is the output of xrdb -query and here's my ~/Xresources file

am I missing something or shouldn't you just uncomment the !*.alpha : 255 from your .Xresources and change the value to something in the range [0,1]?

[emorevival]

Here is the output of xrdb -query and here's my ~/Xresources file

am I missing something or shouldn't you just uncomment the !*.alpha : 255 from your .Xresources and change the value to something in the range [0,1]?

that's commented out from when I was trying to fix it, I didn't even have it there before using pywal and trying to fix the issue. either way, it doesn't seem to make a difference (well technically: it does make a difference when I launch ranger from a keybinding or launch the floating terminal, but the terminal launched with $mod+Enter (or just with st) is still not transparent like the rest). like so:

see how all other windows launched by a keybinding have the correct transparency but not the regular one?

[codeitlikemiley]

check your st build guys, the latest build dont use 0-255 it uses 0-1. the lesser the vale the more transparent the terminal is.

[nickfarrow]

@emorevival I got transparency by using compton, https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st/issues/46

opacity-rule = [ "90:class_g = 'St'" ]; in ~/.config/compton.conf

[umrian]

I have the same problem, too. Transparency working with xcompmgr but when I installed pywal and run wal -i ./img.jpg, it just loses transparency, but all the other colors are working. I also have the st alpha patch, and set the float value to 0.5, but it still doesn't seem to work.