feat: niri - blur

home/base/gui/terminal/foot.nix

@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
         shell = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash --login -c 'nu --login --interactive'";
       };
 
+      colors-dark = {
+        alpha = 0.93; # background transparency
+        blur = true; # requires foot >= 1.26 and compositor support (e.g. niri v26.04+)
+      };
+
       mouse = {
         hide-when-typing = "yes";
       };

home/base/gui/terminal/kitty.nix

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
       macos_show_window_title_in = "none";
 
       background_opacity = "0.93";
+      background_blur = 1; # requires kitty >= 0.46.2 and compositor support (e.g. niri v26.04+)
       macos_option_as_alt = true; # Option key acts as Alt on macOS
       enable_audio_bell = false;
       tab_bar_edge = "top"; # tab bar on top

home/linux/gui/base/noctalia/config/settings.json

@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
       "left": [
         {
           "colorizeSystemIcon": "none",
+          "colorizeSystemText": "none",
           "customIconPath": "",
           "enableColorization": false,
           "icon": "rocket",
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@
         {
           "colorizeDistroLogo": false,
           "colorizeSystemIcon": "none",
+          "colorizeSystemText": "none",
           "customIconPath": "",
           "enableColorization": false,
           "icon": "noctalia",

home/linux/gui/niri/conf/windowrules.kdl

@@ -2,21 +2,31 @@
 // Find more information on the wiki:
 // https://yalter.github.io/niri/Configuration:-Window-Rules
 
-// Terminal applications - open in workspace 1
+// Terminal applications - open in workspace 1, with blur
 window-rule {
     match app-id="foot"
     open-on-workspace "1terminal"
     open-maximized true
+    // foot >= 1.26 uses native blur via ext-background-effect,
+    // no compositor-side blur needed
 }
 window-rule {
     match app-id="Alacritty"
     open-on-workspace "1terminal"
     open-maximized true
+    background-effect {
+        blur true
+    }
 }
 window-rule {
     match app-id="com.mitchellh.ghostty"
     open-on-workspace "1terminal"
     open-maximized true
+    // Ghostty native blur via ext-background-effect coming in v1.4;
+    // use compositor-side blur until then
+    background-effect {
+        blur true
+    }
 }
 
 // Web browsers - open in workspace 2