Christian Duerr

So it works fine on one of your systems? Have you made sure the config is in the right location and a compositor is running?

Could you share your config please? > As I said, "I can set background transparent in both kitty and xfce4-terminal", if a compositor is not running, how the background of...

Can you reproduce this with Manjaro+XFCE outside of a VM? Also please just share your configuration file, that's much easier than telling me what you've changed and much more helpful...

@Zachu Do you have a compositor installed? Transparency definitely works on i3 I can confirm that myself.

Opacity definitely works with Alacritty and picom. So if it doesn't for you, you've probably broken some configuration of either Alacritty or picom.

> What version of alacritty are you running that seems to work? Basically every single one. If it worked for you, but doesn't work anymore, why not just try to...

> I don't have an easy way to roll back What stops you from compiling from source?

Seems like this is something specific to macOS? At least Alacritty certainly isn't explicitly preventing macOS from moving its window when decorations are disabled. Does this work with other applications...

This seems to be a duplicate of https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/2093.

I don't think we accept newlines as characters now that I think about it, so all newlines are interpreted as manual line breaks. Will re-open and investigate tomorrow.