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Okay I tried setting both borders same yet active border is still a bit sharper. 

Ah, I found the real cause. Its the shadow. Shadow makes blur behave abnormally. with shadow:  without shadow: 

Isn't that contrast bleeding into actual window where there's not shadow? Is it intended behavior?

I don't know. Currently my blur is set to size to 5 and passes to 3. Even if shadow should add some contrast, aren't windows just way sharper?

For example check this screen shot, same configs no shadow:  with shdaow:  I can actually make out text in the white area which should not be affected by...

Should I open another issue for this?

This behavior is like what you get when you set blur_ignore_opacity=false and set window_opacity.

I'm not completely sure how sddm is working but I think its using external compositor to prepare session where its ready to start a client. Those compositor commands are written...

In [this](https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1421) thread peeps are talking about detecting installed compositor and [here](https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1417) how to change sddm's compositor from weston to kwin. Maybe that will shed some light on topic?

So that systems using sddm as login manager and hyprland as window manager will not have to depend on another compositor? I don't know if talk about in-house `sddm-compositor` in...