Help with swaywm window rules?
Help with swaywm window rules?
Fellas, I'm at my wit's end with this one. I'm trying to set a general rule for window opacity in sway, and then have a few programs excepted from it.
Back on i3 with picom, I could do this pretty easily by setting activeOpacity to 0.9, for example, and then specifying additional opacityRules like this:
"100:class_g = 'mpv'"
"100:class_g = 'Brave-browser'"
Likewise, hyprland's window rules made it pretty easy to override the general opacity rules as well.
I can't seem to get this on sway, though; if I set it up like this:
[app_id=".*"] opacity 0.85
[app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="librewolf"] opacity 1
it simply sets everything to 0.85.
Currently, I have this:
[app_id="^(?!mpv$|brave_browser$).*$"] opacity 0.85
[app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="mpv"] opacity 1
but it is still exhibiting the same behavior (except mpv also seems to totally disregard any opacity rules whatsoever).
Any help is greatly appreciated---I haven't been able to find anyone else asking or talking about what seems to me like pretty basic functionality.
Running:
swaymsg for_window "[app_id=mpv] opacity 0.5"Works as expected on my end, are you missing just executing
for_window?Note, you can also add multiple rules in the same execution, e.g.
for_window { [app_id=mpv] opacity 0.85 [app_id=LibreWolf] opacity 0.85 }Also, note that
app_idof LibreWolf is capitalized in that manner. You can get that information [app_id, shell etc] by runningswaymsg -t get_treeI guess I should have written the post a bit more clearly. I’ve got the
for_windowpart, it’s just that after I set the opacity for all windowsapp_id=.*, the following lines of the config cannot override that for the specific windows I want different opacities for.My guess is that sway checks sets the opacity when the window open, so when the first rule matches (
app_id=.*) it skips all others, so maybe try putting the other 2 rules above the first one?Sorry if my comment is incomprehensible, I've just woken up.