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Show a wallpaper as a background for every window? (W11 Mica / Acrylic equivalent) (self.linux)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by TheTwelveYearOld to c/[email protected]

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I'm wondering if that's possible with any desktop environment. Basically I want windows with translucent backgrounds with blurring like shown in this post; except that it always shows the wallpaper right behind the window, even if there are windows between it and the desktop. Normally with blurred background setups like that one, a window will blur the content of whatever windows are behind / beneath it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That used to be how translucent terminals did it "back in the day" because it's a lot cheaper to calculate..

It would be the terminal that does this, not a generic solution. I didn't know if any specifically that does this though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

SwayFX has this with the blur_xray option, though it's a tiling wm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I believe Hyprland also has this

[–] tankplanker 1 points 1 week ago

Normal Sway can do translucent windows as well.

Per workspace wallpaper I do with multibg-sway. It uses the workspace title to set the wallpaper. So that means you can set the title dynamically it means I can change wallpaper dynamically per workspace as well.