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Everything in my Compton config works fine except for the opacity-rule

active-opacity = 0.75;
inactive-opacity = 0.75;

opacity-rule = ["90:class_g = 'google-chrome'"];

I am using Compton from the Arch repos. I can't find much documentation, I am just wondering if the newest version works differently than it used to? (I remember this working at one time)

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Possibly this is problem -

Let’s face it: Using transparency (or ARGB background with transparent parts) on any window decorated by i3 is known to break.

The problem is in how i3 adds title bars to windows. Unlike most window managers, i3 creates a completely separate window for the title bar (rather than wrapping it inside a frame window that contains both the application window and its title bar). So the first problem comes up: When using -i (inactive-opacity), the window and its title bar are not associated, and we frequently can’t give the title bar the correct opacity.

(from https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/faq#3-why-does-transparency-not-work-correctly-in-i3).

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