Transparent Background

[joshmedeski]

The part you want to Enhancement
Make superfile's background transparent.

Why it is necessary to enhancement
Better integrate with my terminal workflow.

Additional context
I saw a couple of theme examples had transparent backgrounds, but I'm unsure how to recreate it.

[yorukot]

The transparent background is set by the user's terminal.

Most Linux desktop environments have software/extensions or just setting that can blur windows (such as Gnome Blur My Shell, etc.)

I'm not sure if it can be done on a Mac, but it can be done easily on most desktop environments on Linux.

[joshmedeski]

Sorry if my wording was misleading. I want to disable the spf background. You can see the first image is how my terminal looks by default, then how spf looks (I want to remove the background color)

[yorukot]

It's not your English problem.
My English is awful:(

I think this is a good idea and I will add it!

[AnshumanNeon]

currently you can just remove the whole background section. It will not apply any color.
but yh it's just undefined behaviour which we are misusing.
it'd be good to have an option for it.

[yorukot]

Should there be one more file to set related settings?
(related to theme but not color)

For example, Cursor is an arrow or option background highlight, as well as Border style, etc.

[AnshumanNeon]

I don't think there is a need for it. But it will cause no harm. For long term, you should have one.

[yorukot]

Basically, this works really well, but since in the unfocused state the sidebar's border can be set to follow the background color or have its own color, this results in the sidebar's border not being able to determine if it should be eliminated or not.
(Other elements have some similar issues)

I'll ignore the question for now (it's not obvious in most cases) but this should be a issue in the future.

As for the location of the settings, I put them in config.toml (I think having one more file is a bit too redundant)

[yorukot]

Update in 4108d40
still have some issue need fix :(

Also update wiki https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/wiki/Style

[joshmedeski]

Thanks, I'm looking forward to the next release.

[joshmedeski]

Hey @MHNightCat a quick update:

1. Looks like there is a typo on the config option (should be transparent_background with a d at the end)
2. When I added this to my config it had no effect. I will play around with it more to figure out if it's a user error

[yorukot]

Thanks for the update!
Typos will be updated in the next version.

And I tried it on ubuntu and fedora and everything works fine.
I'm not sure why this setting doesn't work for you. Can you check the log file (~/.local/state/superfile/superfile.log)?