Alacritty - transparency

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*Disclaimer - I have probably caused this :rofl: New laptop blues :musical_note:

Top terminal is alacritty window.opacity: 0.0
Bottom terminal is konsole - transparent!!!

Window manager is Qtile, graphics:

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
    v: 510.60.02
  Device-2: Acer Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1 driver:
    X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    resolution: 1920x1080~144Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.60.02

Just been down the rabbit hole of “shit, picom is not working!” Picom of course was not the problem!!!

Any ideas?

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Share your alacritty config.

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Found it! The configuration syntax has change. Replace:

window.opacity: 0.0

## with:

window:
  opacity: 0.0

4 hours of my life I will not get back :rofl:

But… alacritty does not complain about window.opacity, it normally whinges about config file errors e.g.
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