Transparent background

[luisdavim]

Is there a way to make the background transparent (use the terminal's background)?
set transparency=15 "only works in MacVim

[justinmk]

Not from Vim... that's a terminal feature.

[luisdavim]

Yes, but this color scheme overrides the terminal background with ctermbg.
What I'm asking is for some option to toggle that, something that I can add to my .vimrc like let g:monokai-transparent = 1

[justinmk]

The way to override colorscheme settings is to :hi ctermbg=foo. Not to add random settings.

[zergler]

This worked for me with a transparent rxvt terminal. Make sure to add it after your colorscheme molokai and you shouldn't have to modify the color file at all. If you want to toggle it within vim, wrap it in a vim function.

hi Normal ctermbg=none
hi NonText ctermbg=none
hi LineNr ctermbg=none

[guiniol]

I proposed a PR a few years back to the same effect: #41
It adds an option: g:molokai_transparent which basically does hi Normal ctermbg=none

[jgrar]

Here's my example if you're interested jgrar/dotfiles@3204e17

There's an example screenshot at the bottom.

[selurvedu]

@jgrar, thanks, I'll give it a shot.