Tutorial: Urxvt: transparency
Urxvt offers two types of transparency for its background:
- A "fake" transparency, that copies the wallpaper to the background of the terminal. (more exactly, the contents of Xorg's root window)
- A "real" transparency, using the composite manager currently running (xcompmgr, dcompmgr, compiz...)
If no composite manager is running, there is no transparency at all if you choose the real (composite) transparency.
Edit your ~/.Xdefaults file and add:
- For real transparency (composite):
urxvt*depth: 32
urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800
- For fake transparency:
urxvt*transparent: true
urxvt*shading: 30
Note: if you enable the two, the fake transparency takes the precedence over the real transparency (composite).