Py3status: Add transparency/opacity

[claiire]

It'd be cool if there were an option to set the status bar's transparency (so the background would show through it)

[tobes]

Hi,

It looks like there may be some level of support for transparency in i3bar now by setting the alpha channel in your i3 config

bar {
    colors {
        background #00000099
        statusline #FFFFFF99
    }
    status_command ....
}

I'm not sure if it works correctly as I do not use wallpapers. If this is working I'd be happy to extend py3status' color support to include an alpha channel.

[lasers]

Confirmed. Use i3-gaps fork and make sure to run compton.

bar {
    colors {
        background #00000099
        statusline #FFFFFF99
    }
    i3bar_command i3bar -t
    status_command py3status....
}

Transparency / RGBA Colors: https://github.com/Airblader/i3

I'd be happy to extend py3status' color support to include an alpha channel.

Happy to extend the background, border, and cherrypicked borders too?

background [color] sets the background color
border [color] sets the border color
border_{top, bottom, left, right} [int] sets the border width (default 1)

[lasers]

As mentioned more than a year ago, I confirmed this. Everything works okay with 8 digit hex colors. As usual, you need to specify i3bar -t and run compton. New option background and border worked okay too. I hadn't found anything stopping me from using this. I'm closing this unless otherwise stated.

[Strazil001]

Fyi the Alpha channel comes before the color code, not after

Ex: FF000000 and not 000000FF like in the previous examples