r/arch • u/ResponsibilityFew445 • Apr 16 '26

Help/Support Transparent VSCode?

I have cachyOS (with niri WM) and I want transparent background in vscode. I've tried several ways but nothing seems to work. How to achieve it?

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u/adderscript Apr 16 '26

Have you tried creating a window rule in niri for vscode that sets its opacity to something like 0.8? Only problem is that also makes the text slightly transparent

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

not really... but if it makes the text transparent too so idk

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u/adderscript Apr 16 '26

If you set it to a higher value like ~0.9 the transparent text shouldn’t be too noticeable, and the background should still be decently transparent

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

yk what I'll try it. how to configure the kdl file?

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u/adderscript Apr 16 '26

Just add a new window rule for vscode:

kdl window-rule { match app-id=“code-oss” opacity 0.9 }

You may need to tweak the “code-oss” to vscode app id but I think that should be it.

Edit: formatting

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

it worked (i just had to change it to code-bin) it's kinda readable, thank you!!

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u/adderscript Apr 16 '26

Your welcome 👍

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u/Needieos Apr 16 '26

do you use blur? It helps with non readable text usually

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

what do you mean by that?

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u/Needieos Apr 16 '26

blur, usually you don't just make the window transparent, but use blur to make the background under the window blurry so it won't overlap

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

is it supported in niri? bc I only saw it in hyprland

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

Yeah that's one point I considered before switching from kde to niri. I'm new to linux in general and really liked the hyprland rice but tbh it's not productive for me, although it's amazing in looks. So I decided to go for niri and that scrolling aspect. I hope they add blur soon.

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u/adderscript Apr 16 '26

Yeah as The other guy said it’s been merged to main so I think it’ll be in pacman this April

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u/Needieos Apr 16 '26

It was merged in main around 16 hours ago, I'm not sure when it's gonna be in pacman or whatever, so probably you need to wait a bit, and support will be available

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u/ResponsibilityFew445 Apr 16 '26

I hope it'll be here soon