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JonnyRobbie

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 172

[Solved] Transparent borders in i3 (+compton)

In my i3 config file I've set

new_window pixel 5

but the border is opaque with color. I want it to be transparent, similar to this look: http://i.imgur.com/EzMBIbB.jpg.

It seems that I would need to use a compositor, so I got a compton, and tried to run it.

The transparency itself works fine when applied to whole windows like with this compton setting:

inactive-opacity = 0.8;

but when I try to set transparent just the borders with something like this:

frame-opacity = 0;

It doesn't work at all. The borders stay there  and nothing happens.

Is there someting I'm missing?

Last edited by JonnyRobbie (2015-07-30 18:48:02)

karlch

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Registered: 2015-06-14

Posts: 105

Re: [Solved] Transparent borders in i3 (+compton)

You might be able to configure this with compton but it should be a lot easier to change to the i3-gaps patch.
https://github.com/Airblader/i3

It is available in tha AUR and therefore easy to install.

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JonnyRobbie

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 172

Re: [Solved] Transparent borders in i3 (+compton)

Yep, It does exactly what I wanted. Thanks