x opacity

[Chris Sorenson]

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> Today's Topics:

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> 1. Re: x opacity (Sam Varshavchik)
> 2. Re: x opacity (Carsten Haitzler)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 08:34:55 -0500
> From: Sam Varshavchik
> To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: x opacity
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> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 3:37 AM Paum B. wrote:
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> > Hi, I don't know where I should ask.
> >
> > I want to achieve: vim in terminal, with possibility to put 100% opacity to everything
> > besides text I am writing, so that all terminal window, except my text is transparent.
> >
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> You will need to check the settings of whatever terminal program
> you're using to see how you can set the background color, this is
> controlled by your terminal program's settings. It is also possible
> that your terminal program is integrated into your desktop
> environment, and there's a transparent display theme.
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> In any case this is entirely dependent on whatever terminal and
> desktop environment you're using, this is not standardized in any way
> by X.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 14:24:16 +0000
> From: Carsten Haitzler
> To: "Paum B."
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: x opacity
> Message-ID: <20220106142416.7d614737749ea27bfbff5b48 at rasterman.com>
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> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 01:11:48 +0100 "Paum B." said:
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> > Hi, I don't know where I should ask.
> >
> > I want to achieve: vim in terminal, with possibility to put 100% opacity
> > to everything besides text I am writing, so that all terminal window,
> > except my text is transparent.
> >
> > I am sorry if I am asking on wrong place.
> >
>
> That's up to your terminal emulator program to do that.
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> FYI This is exactly what Terminology does - the background of the terminal can
> be transparent (slider to select how much) with the text (and bg backing behind
> text if the terinal app requests a background color rather than no background)
> will be solid. Like this:
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> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-61d6fb29dd8db0.62354864.png
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> (80% translucency settings - ie mostly solid):
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> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-61d6fb6550c9e5.09200548.png
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> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
> Carsten Haitzler - raster at rasterman.com
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I agree with everything Mr. Sam and Rasterman have already said.

You could pick out an X color (rgb.txt) that mostly replicates what you'd like to see in
your background, then for example if you're using xterm, you could start it like this:

xterm -font 7x14 -fg (whatever foreground color you like) -bg (transparancy color) -ls -sl 4096 -cr yellow -sb &