awesome-wm

Can't get rid of borders in Awesome WM

I'm trying to make a task list popup with transparency, but I ran into a problem with the borders. Can't find a way to remove the black bars around the popup.

I tried border_width = 0 and theme.border_width = 0 but it just doesn't work.

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Solution

  • Thanks to @Uli I managed to remove the borders (shadows) of the popup.

    The problem was that the picom compositor was creating shadows around the popup.

    Making the widget type = "desktop" makes picom ignore it.

    github.com/yshui/picom/blob/...

    Enabled client-side shadows on windows. Note desktop windows (windows with '_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP') never get shadow, unless explicitly requested using the wintypes option.