Add blur to transparent windows

Signed-off-by: Severin Kaderli <severin@kaderli.dev>

system/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ visual_bell:
 #
 # Window opacity as a floating point number from `0.0` to `1.0`.
 # The value `0.0` is completely transparent and `1.0` is opaque.
-background_opacity: 0.75
+background_opacity: 0.5
 
 # Mouse bindings
 #

system/.config/compton/compton.conf

@@ -12,13 +12,20 @@
 
 # Settings opacity rules
 opacity-rule = [
-    "85:class_g = 'Nemo'",
-    "85:class_g = 'Thunar'"
+    "75:class_g = 'Nemo'",
+    "75:class_g = 'Thunar'"
 ];
 
 # Shadows
 shadow = true;
 
+blur:
+{
+    method = "gaussian";
+    size = 10;
+    deviation = 5.0;
+};
+
 # Performance improvements
 unredir-if-possible = true;
 backend = "glx";

system/.config/i3/config.private

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1: '"
 # Startup applications                                                        #
 ###############################################################################
 # Start compton
-exec --no-startup-id compton -b
+exec --no-startup-id compton -b --experimental-backends
 
 # Start dunst
 exec --no-startup-id dunst

system/.config/i3/config.work

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1: '"
 # Startup applications                                                        #
 ###############################################################################
 # Start compton
-exec --no-startup-id compton -b
+exec --no-startup-id compton -b --experimental-backends
 
 # Start dunst
 exec --no-startup-id dunst

system/.config/polybar/config

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 #######################################
 [settings]
 padding = 4
-background-color = #BF080808
-foreground-color = #BFA1B0B8
+# 60% alpha
+background-color = #99080808
+foreground-color = #99A1B0B8
 bar-height = 35
 
 #######################################