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Transparency

komorebi can make the windows that do not have the focus see-through, so that the one you are working in stands out. It does not draw anything itself: the opacity of a window is a property KWin has, which komorebi sets. Transparency is off by default.

Turning it on

komorebic transparency turns transparency on or off, komorebic toggle-transparency switches it, and komorebic transparency-alpha sets how opaque a see-through window is, from 0 (not there at all) to 255 (not see-through): 200 by default.

komorebic transparency enable
komorebic transparency-alpha 150
komorebic toggle-transparency

In komorebi.json

The same settings are keys of komorebi.json: transparency, transparency_alpha and transparency_ignore_rules, a list of rules, as Rules explains them, for the windows that are never see-through.

{
  "transparency": true,
  "transparency_alpha": 150,
  "transparency_ignore_rules": [
    { "kind": "Exe", "id": "mpv", "matching_strategy": "Equals" }
  ]
}

The file sets them when the daemon starts and when the file changes. A file that leaves out transparency or transparency_alpha has the defaults, off and 200, so a change made with a command does not survive the file changing. The ignore rules add up, as the other rules do.

Which windows are see-through

On the workspace each monitor shows, the window in front in every container is see-through unless its container has the focus on the focused monitor. A window on a monitor that is not the focused one is see-through, whatever its container. On a workspace with a monocle the monocled window is the only one that counts: it is opaque on the focused monitor and see-through on another. A workspace that does not tile has no see-through windows, and neither does a window that a rule keeps out of it: the rules are the transparency_ignore_rules of komorebi.json, which no command sets.

Windows that are not in front, such as the other windows of a stack, are not on the screen and are left as they are. With transparency off, every window is opaque.

What is put back

When komorebi exits, every window it made see-through is opaque again. A window that closes needs nothing.

The border

The border effect draws a window from a texture that has the window's opacity in it. The build of the effect that the flake installs draws a window again when its opacity changes, so the border and the window change together. With the stock effect a change of opacity alone does not show until the window changes.