Hyper: No linux background transparency since 1.3.3 on AppImage Release file

[justUmen]

• [x] I am on the latest Hyper.app version
• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Archlinux
• Hyper.app version: 2.0.4 and 1.4.8 and 1.3.3
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Just change "backgroundColor" in .hyper.js

Issue

I'm enjoying the background transparency of the AppImage hyper 1.3.3.

./hyper-1.3.3-x86_64-linux.AppImage --enable-transparent-visuals --disable-gpu

But since, all others version of the AppImage doesn't seems to support transparency. (same for 2.0.4)

./hyper-1.4.8-x86_64.AppImage --enable-transparent-visuals --disable-gpu

Only change I made in .hyper.js :

backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.1)',

[albinekb]

I think this is because chrome (thus electron) stopped supporting transparency without disabling gpu-acceleration on windows & linux, can't find the link right now, but if you search for transparency in the issues you should be able to find it 👍

[justUmen]

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8532#issuecomment-300715940 ?
So I guess nothing you can do... keep up the good work !

[albinekb]

Exactly @justUmen, I think there are hyper plugins that forces gpu acceleration to disable, to get transparency. But I wouldn't recommend it, it's not worth disabling gpu acceleration for transparency imho 👍 maybe if you only use it for pretty demos it could be a viable option

[albinekb]

You feel alright with closing this? there are already multiple other issues about transparency 👍

[justUmen]

Sure ! And 666 issues isn't a great number...

[albinekb]

😂 Indeed not, thanks 🎉