Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)
In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn’t learn anything that lesson.
Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?
Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.
That’s why you want to add blur. I also don’t understand unblurred transparent terminals.
Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.
booooring
I just boot straight into the terminal. No desktop, just the void staring at me full of possibilities.
Hi I might be your worst nightmare and this comment explains how I do it
I’m not sure why I prefer this, but I really like the “darkened background” rather than “blurred background” effect
To read thru documentation.
I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.
What’s the difference between opaque and transparent+blur?
The difference between a wall and frosted glass.
Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)
opaque is not transparent and has no blur
transparent+blur has transparency and no blur
hope i helped
Aesthetics
Very simple actually: don’t use 100% transparency.
Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.
You can have both function and form.
Additionally use Kawase-Blur with a lot of blurring, and this is a non-issue.
In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn’t learn anything that lesson.
what
That’s the neat part. You don’t.