background mode does not work with polybar pseudo transparency

Open 2403772980ygy opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

As the name implies, the pseudo transparency stuff stay still and does not change with background mode. It works with root mode, btw.

Feb 13 '22 15:02 2403772980ygy

Thanks for reporting, Background mode is spawning a window with a background typehint that is not fully supported by all window managers. Not sure if I can change that behavior, what window manager/desktop were you running polybar on?

Feb 18 '22 20:02 danielfvm

I simply use bspwm. I guess this might be something we need to work with polybar code, for I guess polybar might use the root window to feed its pseudo-transparency(I am not sure for I haven't looked through the code of polybar......).

Feb 19 '22 08:02 2403772980ygy