Not fully transperrent

[xezo360hye]

As you can see below, it works fine when there's URxvt or no window in background:

But in other cases:

I use Arch (btw) and picom compositor

[xezo360hye]

This becomes absolutely unreadable when there's white on background:

Also I've found that in XFCE it works fine (no square), however it's still unreadable on white. I used i3 firstly

[ReperakDev]

I've never used picom but can you tell it to make an exception for activate-linux? It's picking up on it.
For the white background thing, I'll have to see what Windows does to get around that. Anyone with unactivated Windows?

[xezo360hye]

I've never used picom but can you tell it to make an exception for activate-linux? It's picking up on it.

Figured it out. It's just shadows so I'll try to remove them from activate-linux window

For the white background thing, I'll have to see what Windows does to get around that. Anyone with unactivated Windows?

I guess it just makes it a bit darker at some point, not sure

[MrGlockenspiel]

If you try the -w flag it *should* skip your compositor, assuming it's compliant

[xezo360hye]

If you try the -w flag it should skip your compositor, assuming it's compliant

I use picom and at this point I can't figure out how to disable shadows for activate-linux because it's not a normal window

[MrGlockenspiel]

you can add this to your picom.conf to blacklist the shadows

shadow-exclude = [
  "class_g ?= 'activate-linux'",
];

[ahmubashshir]

you can add this to your picom.conf to blacklist the shadows

shadow-exclude = [
  "class_g ?= 'activate-linux'",
];

It's better to ignore windows with _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR set altogether.

shadow-exclude = [
  "_NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR@:c",
];