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How to set window transparent? #654

Open lanbodn opened 2 years ago

lanbodn commented 2 years ago

When I need make a transparent window on regolith, I find it's unrealizable. The window will be black in fact. I use QT qwindow to create transparent window and it works on xorg desktop. Please help me fixing this issue or give me some solutions. Thank you.

kgilmer commented 2 years ago

Hi @lanbodn , do you want all windows to have transparency? If you're using the picom compositor you can update the settings to render the windows transparently. See this section in the picom config: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-compositor-picom-glx/blob/master/config#L100

On regolith, you can copy the default picom config (/etc/regolith/picom/config) to your user directory (~/.config/regolith2/picom/config) and make changes there, To see changes take effect, you'll need to log out of the session.

lanbodn commented 2 years ago

@kgilmer Thank you for your help. But I can't find picom config (/etc/regolith/picom/config) (~/.config/regolith2/picom/config), what should I do?

saltbr1nger commented 1 year ago

@lanbodn you need to create one. You can either populate it with the code from sample config @kgilmer provided or build one from scratch if you have experience.

kgilmer commented 1 year ago

Thanks @saltbr1nger , yes @lanbodn if you install regolith-compositor-picom-glx this will provide /etc/regolith/picom/config, and then you can copy that file to your user directory as described above and tweak as needed. Note you'll need to log back in for compositor settings to be applied.