Transparent background in nixvim

[butzist]

What is the recommended configuration for setting a transparent background in neovim? The theme set by stylix seems to have a solid background despite the opacity settings. Is there a way to achieve this with stylix or do I need to use a plugin like transparent.nvim?

[danth]

It can be done quite easily by placing the following in your vimrc.

autocmd VimEnter * highlight Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE

This may be something that should be built in to Stylix, since we have a similar behaviour with Helix where the background becomes transparent if the terminal opacity setting is < 1.

Not having it transparent in all cases is useful because a terminal which we don't support may have a different colored background.

[trueNAHO]

This may be something that should be built in to Stylix, since we have a similar behaviour with Helix where the background becomes transparent if the terminal opacity setting is < 1.

For reference, the following NixVim declarations are transparency related:

stylix/modules/nixvim/nixvim.nix

Lines 31 to 34 in 1ff9d37

	transparent = {
	bg = "none";
	ctermbg = "none";
	};

It can be done quite easily by placing the following in your vimrc.

autocmd VimEnter * highlight Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE

Stylix' Neovim support could mimic NixVim's transparency implementation.

Should I open a tracking issue regarding global Stylix transparency support?

[danth]

We're probably better off with just having a separate issue for each target which is missing support. No need to keep a tracking issue updated