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RiceKills

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Registered: 2010-05-31

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i3/urxvt transparency [SOLVED]

Hello  fellow archers, I am having a problem enabling transparency for urxvt using i3. I really just want psudo transparency but the commands in the wiki don't work. I even tried it with xcompmgr -c & in my .xsession but it still didn't work.

Any ideas?

Last edited by RiceKills (2011-04-25 03:40:29)

Inxsible

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Re: i3/urxvt transparency [SOLVED]

try this in ~/.Xdefaults

#urxvt*font:             xft:Terminus:size=10
urxvt*font:             xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10
urxvt*termName:         rxvt
urxvt*background:       #000000
urxvt*foreground:       #cccccc
urxvt*scrollBar:        false
urxvt*perl-lib:         /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/
urxvt*perl-ext-common:  default,matcher
urxvt*urlLauncher:      /usr/bin/jumanji
urxvt*matcher.button:   1
#urxvt*fading:           50
#urxvt*fadeColor:        #000000

Xft*dpi:                96
Xft*antialias:          true
Xft*hinting:            full

urxvt*background:       rgba:0000/0000/0000/cccc

URxvt.transparent:   true
URxvt.tintColor:     white
URxvt.shading:       20 
 
URxvt*color0:      #000000
URxvt*color1:      #9e1828
URxvt*color2:      #aece92
URxvt*color3:      #968a38
URxvt*color4:      #414171
URxvt*color5:      #963c59
URxvt*color6:      #418179
URxvt*color7:      #bebebe
URxvt*color8:      #666666
URxvt*color9:      #cf6171
URxvt*color10:     #c5f779
URxvt*color11:     #fff796
URxvt*color12:     #4186be
URxvt*color13:     #cf9ebe
URxvt*color14:     #71bebe
URxvt*color15:     #ffffff

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the sad clown

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Re: i3/urxvt transparency [SOLVED]

As Inxible posted, this is what you need:

URxvt.transparent:   true
URxvt.shading:       20

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RiceKills

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Re: i3/urxvt transparency [SOLVED]

Ah, thanks guys. I was using rgba:whatever for transparency. thanks