Neovide not responding to configurations set in init.lua

[Ktoks]

Describe the bug Neovide isn't responding to configuration changes upon reload in an init.lua file.

To Reproduce

1. Make any changes to configuration.
2. Start Neovide.

Expected behavior The configuration should be noticeably different with many configurations.

Screenshots

Desktop:

• OS - Pop!_OS 22.04
• Kernel - 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic
• Neovide Version - 0.13.1
• Neovim Version - v0.10.1-dev-34+g58e1ef2f6

Please run neovide --log and paste the contents of the .log file created in the current directory here: neovide_rCURRENT.log

Additional context The image above both shows the problem - transparency when my Opacity is set to 1.0, and it shows my init.lua file.

[fredizzimo]

I think you forgot to tell how you are starting Neovim, because it does not seem to be started by Neovide, due to the lack of the line Starting neovim with in the logs. Neovide also gets assigned channel id 3 instead of 1, suggesting that something else is already attached.

This probably means that your init.lua has already been run when Neovide starts and at that point vim.g.neovide won't be set, so none of your options will apply.

You can either remove the if vim.g.neovide check, or if you you are starting with --listen, make sure that you don't add the --headless option, since then it won't wait for the UI to attach before loading the configuration.

[Ktoks]

neovide --log is the exact command I used just now... New log as a result from that command(same result). neovide_rCURRENT.log

[fredizzimo]

This time the log shows that the settings were changed 11 time, so I believe that everything else than the transparency applied.

Window transparency and full screen are incompatible due the optimizitions the compositor does, so there's nothing to show below the window, I recommend maximizing the window instead.

[Ktoks]

You are right, I do see the other settings are now working, the transparency is still not fixed even when I set full screen to false and put --maximized in the command line. neovide_rCURRENT.log

[fredizzimo]

The neovide_transparency variable is a bit poorly named https://neovide.dev/configuration.html#transparency, it should actually be neovide_opacity', so with your value of 1.0forneovide_transparency` the window will be fully opaque.

[Ktoks]

The neovide_transparency variable is a bit poorly named https://neovide.dev/configuration.html#transparency, it should actually be neovide_opacity', so with your value of 1.0forneovide_transparency` the window will be fully opaque.

Same result with opacity instead of transparency. I've even tried using Vim script instead of Lua

[fredizzimo]

I mean the value should be less than one for a transparent window, and 0 for a completely transparent one.

[fredizzimo]

@Ktoks, did you try if neovide_transparency=0 makes a difference? I don't see why it shouldn't. But your current setting neovide_transparency=1 should not, since it's already the default.

[fredizzimo]

I created this Neovim issue

• https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/29634

The best workaround for now is to remove the if vim.g.neovide check, if you use neovide --server

Also, see this issue

• https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/1868