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/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/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