Terminal opacity configuration not working

[JeMartinezATX]

I'm attempting to change the background opacity of the kitty terminal with no success.

I started off by opening the ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf file and changing the following values:

• background_opacity 0.5
• dynamic_background_opacity yes

Still nothing. So I installed compton and tried adding the following:

• { rule = { class = "x-terminal-emulator" }, properties = { opacity = 0.5 } },

That also did not work, so I went to the -- Fixed terminal geometry for floating terminals section and tried adding background opacity to the properties section:

{ rule_any = { class = { "Alacritty", "Termite", "mpvtube", "kitty", "st-256color", "st", "URxvt", }, }, properties = { width = screen_width * 0.45, height = screen_height * 0.5, background_opacity = 0.5 } },

None of these solutions seem to work, and I'm unsure of where to go from here.

This is also run on Ubuntu 20.04

[elenapan]

Hi there,

Let's do a small test:

• First make sure compton is running:

  pgrep compton && echo 'Running' || echo 'Not running'

• Then run kitty with a semi-transparent background. This command should work regardless of your kitty config, since it overrides the background_opacity option.

  kitty -o background_opacity=0.5

Note: I am using picom which is basically a maintained version of compton with a different name. It could be that the version of compton offered by the Ubuntu repositories is buggy. I highly recommend trying the above test with picom if compton does not succeed.

The test worked for me using picom with no configuration file:

picom --config /dev/null

Good luck and let me know if you need more help!