I'm a huge fan of applications that can enable transparency. No particular reason. I just love the aesthetic. Others may find this useful by havin...
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re: mac os - I've got transparency working, albeit through a sort of backdoor. I'm using the amazing chunkwm as my window manager (tiling.. yum). I discovered recently that it had a plugin which allowed for dimming of inactive windows. A little searching yielded the fact that you can dim any window by app name, using this syntax in the .chunkwmrc file:
chunkc tiling::rule --owner Code --alpha .85 &ymmv, as the window manager is probably overkill just to get transparency in vscode, but being that I was already running the window manager, it suited me just fine :) I should mention that obviously you can make any app transparent this way. The possibilities are endless!
so when I went to install chunkwm I got recommended yabai instead so I installed it but the command :
apply to all windows got a clue on how to do it on a single app instead?
yabai -m rule --add app="Brave Browser" opacity=1.0from github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/blob/...
I spent some time to get right name
Use
app="Code"in case of VSCodeRelevant explanation (I just used
grepinsteadjq):github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issue...
I finally got this to work on Elementary OS Juno:
I changed the command "nano ~/.devilspie/vscode_transparent.ds" to "nano ~/.devilspie/code_transparent.ds" I pasted the devilspie code in (only the one with the transparency defined in the hex code works) and pressed ctrl+s to save and then ctrl+x to exit. Then you have to run devils pie at startup by adding the command "devilspie" in settings/applications/startup.
I'm not sure if changing the file name from vscode_transparent.ds made this work or if using the hex code and not the 87/100 code made this work. But it does not work without devilspie running.
Basically changing name has no impact, it is just that using the hex code with 87/100 caused an error
" unrecognized argument $((0xffffffff "
This was the error in the second code
I got this to work on KDE by making a small Tweak.
( contains ( window_name ) "Code" )
instead of
( contains ( window_class ) "Code" )
Also, as Derek said, you have to run devilspie for it to work.
Hey man I was looking for this long time ago, you just make me happy to use vscode again :D. Thanks you bro.
It's just work with the """You can set your intended opacity using the hex string at the end 0xdfffffff(this is about 87% opaque which is adequate for me). It has a range of 1 to 99. """"
The only things I am stuck with is how can I convert 75% to the hex string.
How can I find the right transparent for me..
Please give me something thanks you in advance.
Great tips here Emmanuel, just what I was looking for actually.
Linux is much easier now. Just install the GlassIt-Linux extension: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
Sadly, you can barely see the text, so transparency is a bit limited. You can use code-transparent (aur.archlinux.org/packages/code-tr...) instead.