Can't set transparent background in settings UI, only colors that obscure text under cursor

[ssteinerx]

So I had to go edit the settings by hand in ~/.atom/config.cson, but I'm not sure they're going to survive...

[olmokramer]

Yes this is a known issue. I did a request for a better color picker in the settings view some time ago, but nothing really happened... There are two ways to solve this problem:

• I (or someone else) can make a PR on the settings-view repo that replaces the color picker with a fancier one. I don't have the time to do this, though.
• I can use object config schemes for the colors instead of color schemes. I really don't like this option because it adds a lot of fields to the settings page (12 extra for each cursor variant) and you can't specify colors with a CSS string when manually editing config.cson.

There is actually a third option: make a custom UI to edit the cursors. But again, I don't have time right now to do that. This is something I really want to do, though, as it would make editing cursors a much more pleasant experience :)

Editing your config.cson by hand should be safe. I believe you can use any valid CSS color string or an object with red, green, blue and alpha properties where the former 3 take a value between 0 and 255 and alpha is a value between 0 (transparent) and 1 (opaque).

[rinopo]

Hi, The current interface was somewhat misguiding for me, too, since it results in an opaque cursor that hides the text.

How about replacing the current color picker buttons with simple text input boxes to accept CSS color expression?