* Pick window transparency from Appearance > Window Transparency
Transparent, the default, keeps today's windows. Opaque turns the windows
Omarchy makes transparent solid. Glassy is the frosted glass Starship
(#14726): its blur behind every see-through window and shell surface, and a
see-through, blurred background in the theme's terminal files, since foot
turns compositor blur down and a Hyprland opacity rule fades text.
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* Leave window transparency to Appearance when animations are off
Turning animations off no longer makes windows opaque. VM installs start
with opaque windows instead, and a migration keeps them opaque for anyone
who already has animations off.
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* Add a Glassy bar background, under Menu Bar > Bar Background
Menu Bar > Bar Background picks Opaque Bar, Glassy Bar or Clear Bar, and
Indicators becomes Bar Indicators to match. Glassy keeps the theme
background faintly and Hyprland blurs what is behind it, with the same blur
as Glassy windows.
omarchy bar background opaque|glassy|none|cycle sets it and prints it when
given nothing. omarchy bar transparent true|false|toggle stays for
compatibility, as none and opaque. Double-clicking the bar cycles through
the three backgrounds the same way, from clear to glassy to opaque.
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* Stop when a saved corner choice can't be removed
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* Make btop follow glassy windows
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A machine without a GPU, like most VMs, renders through llvmpipe on the
CPU, where every animated frame and every translucent window costs. In a
VM, opening and closing a terminal took ~5s of CPU; a panel ~3.4s.
omarchy toggle animations (also under Toggle > Animations) places a Hyprland
flag that turns off animations, blur and shadows and makes windows opaque.
The shell follows Hyprland's animations:enabled, rereading it on every
config reload: its one-shot animations run for Style.duration(ms), which
is then 0, and its spinners, pulses and title marquee hold still. A new
install in a VM starts with the flag in place.
Measured in the ISO test VM (llvmpipe), CPU per interaction:
terminal open+close 5000ms -> 481ms, workspace switch 1670ms -> 409ms,
audio panel 3446ms -> 796ms, volume OSD 2324ms -> 584ms, menu 2028ms ->
1241ms.
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Hiding the top bar and removing the window gaps are the two things you
do to give the screen entirely to your windows, and doing both took two
hands and two hotkeys. `omarchy toggle fullscreen desktop` does them
together.
It only leaves full screen when both halves are in it, so hitting the
hotkey with just the bar hidden (or just the gaps gone) pulls the other
half into line instead of flipping the one you already set.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JB9phxP56gnP7qSidkkUJE
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Two problems made a missing Wayland compositor look like broken tests.
The cleanup traps ended on a bare conditional, so when a test skipped
before creating its TMPDIR the trap's last command returned 1 and, under
set -e, that overrode the explicit exit 0.
Six tests that launch quickshell had no compositor guard at all, so they
ran anyway and failed on the Qt platform plugin.
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