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I am trying to:

  1. make some applications transparent using compton on i3wm such that
  2. in tabbed/ stacked mode in i3wm the underlying windows are hidden (or are not drawn).

For example's sake, let us take the application to be zathura.

I tried the following in my compton.conf:

opacity-rule = [
"90:class_g = 'Zathura' && !_NET_WM_STATE@:32a",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'"
]

This doesn't make zathura transparent, but zathura is hidden if it is beneath any other transparent window in tabbed/ stacked window.

Next I tried the following in compton.conf:

opacity-rule = [
"90:class_g = 'Zathura'",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'"
]

This does make zathura transparent, but this draws zathura beneath other windows when in tabbed or stacked mode in i3wm.

I found this and tried the suggested solution. That is, I replaced "0:_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" with

"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[0]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[1]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[2]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[3]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'",
"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[4]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'"

However this made no change. Please help.

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My entire compton.conf is as follows:

menu        = { shadow = false; };
dropdown_menu = { shadow = false; };
popup_menu    = { shadow = false; };
utility       = { shadow = false; };

Shadow

shadow = true; no-dnd-shadow = true; no-dock-shadow = true; clear-shadow = true; shadow-radius = 7; shadow-offset-x = -7; shadow-offset-y = -7; shadow-exclude = [ "class_g = 'i3-frame'", "class_g = 'keynav'",
"name = 'Notification'", "class_g ?= 'Notify-osd'", "_GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS@:c" ];

opacity-rule = [

"90:class_g = 'Zathura'",

"90:class_g = 'Zathura' && !_NET_WM_STATE@:32a",

"0:_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'"

"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[0]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" ,"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[1]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" ,"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[2]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" ,"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[3]:32a = '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" ,"0:_NET_WM_STATE@[4]:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'" ];

Fading

fading = true; fade-delta = 5; fade-in-step = 0.03; fade-out-step = 0.03; fade-exclude = [ ];

Other

backend = "xrender"; mark-wmwin-focused = true; mark-ovredir-focused = true; detect-rounded-corners = true; detect-client-opacity = true; refresh-rate = 0; vsync = "none"; dbe = false; focus-exclude = [ "class_g = 'Cairo-clock'" ]; detect-transient = true; detect-client-leader = true; invert-color-include = [ ];

GLX backend

glx-copy-from-front = false; glx-swap-method = "undefined";

Window type settings

wintypes: { tooltip = { fade = true; shadow = true; opacity = 0.75; focus = true; }; };

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