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SteveSapolsky

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Registered: 2014-08-09

Posts: 16

Transparent window background for GTK

I'm using I3 on top of the XFCE4. I'm wondering if there is any way to make a GTK theme with a transparent background color. I'm not speaking about making just terminal windows transparent. I want to make all GTK windows have transparent background color, if that's even possible.

s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: Transparent window background for GTK

Hi,

GTK theme needs to support RGBA and you need to be running a composite manager (like xcomposite, compton)

edit theme gtkrc and change gtk-xft-rgb value from rgb to rgba, or if the option is called rgba something and value is false, change it to true.

Maybe that works?

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box1: Arch (linux-3.17-rc5)
box2: Gentoo (linux-3.17-rc5)
wm: subtle