Real transparency in urxvt
Posted on Sat 15 March 2008 in Technology • 1 min read
Add the following lines to the \~/.Xdefaults to get a transparent urxvt terminal:
urxvtdepth: 32
urxvtbackground: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
The depth option tells urxvt to use 32 bits to define a color. Generally a color is represented as 24 bits (8 bits each for Red. Blue and Green). We add 8 more bits to store the Alpha(transparency) information. More info Then we set the background option to denote the 4 different color information : Red/Blue/Green/Alpha. To change the shading change the Alpha value in background option. 0000 = full transparent and ffff = no transparency. For e17 users: Use the bling module for composite effects.