kitty not transparent

[darkralts]

this git seems dead but for the low chance someone sees this i cant seem to get transparency working, is there any config or any source code i could change? idk anything about coding but it annoys me so i wanna try to fix it
maybe its a terminal issue not supporting transparency or just a compton issue but i have no idea

[sewnie]

after some https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61622397/x11-cannot-draw-an-image-on-transparent-window-created-with-xcreatewindow

NOTE: THIS WILL BREAK ARGUMENT -bg.

oneko/oneko.c

Line 306 in 5bbb511

GCFunction | GCForeground | GCBackground | GCTile |

see GCBackground? change that to 0.
works for me as a temporary solution.

[sewnie]

see that idiot above? the actual solution was CFLAG -DSHAPE. compiling without it will remove trasparency.
also make sure to have a compositor.

[hatkidchan]

the actual solution was CFLAG -DSHAPE. compiling without it will remove trasparency.

for me it works even without -DSHAPE, maybe this problem is related only to your distro? I can't really find anything related to SHAPE in sources. You sure you're running exactly this program?