I try to do anything to make alacritty transparent

General system Newbie
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i try tutorials but there dont work idk if im doing it wrong or what so ever so i need help

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Please open this file with a text editor and check to see if you have opacity at a number like 0.9.

File: /home/yourUserName/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

If it is already a number below 1.0, then you also need to ensure your WM or compositor has opacity enabled.

Which WM/DE are you using?

Additionally, there are other terminals that make it easier to customise them within the GUI/app itself. You should probably use one of these instead. In your case, Konsole - KDE’s default terminal.

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My DE is Plasma 5.27.9
And my WM is KWin

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Wayland ?

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i want to do it in alacritty tho

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I know. Why though?

Either way, if the settings I mentioned don’t work, please answer this question.

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He should have a transparent (but not blurred) background with what you give him.

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i also want a blur one btw

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Just noticing this is a duplicate thread from here: Alacritty.yml code not here

Tell you what, I’ll just post my settings:

## Import files (Colors, Fonts, Etc)
import:
  - ~/.config/alacritty/colors.yml
  - ~/.config/alacritty/fonts.yml

## Set environment variables
env:
  TERM: alacritty
  WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR: '1.0'

## Terminal window settings
window:
  dimensions:
    columns: 100
    lines: 30
  padding:
    x: 10
    y: 10

  decorations: full
  startup_mode: Windowed
  dynamic_title: true

## scrolling
  history: 10000
  multiplier: 3

## Background opacity
  opacity: 0.95

## Cursor
cursor:
  style:
    shape: Beam
    blinking: On

  unfocused_hollow: false


colors:
  background: "#181825"
## Live config reload
live_config_reload: true

If this works, please mark both threads as solved.

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For that you first need to have it transparent.

If the anwser at the question is yes
→ Wayland need to use a kwin script (force blur) and launch Alacritty with xwayland.

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where i put alacritty were?

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in your ternimal nano ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
Put the config @ddnn gived
Save, Alacritty will reload automatically the config.

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i use vim

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Then use vim instead of nano.

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NO!!!11 :rage:
Command above forces one to use nano!

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