Linux desktop window opacity/translucency default handling
Cluster 143426 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #144910 on 26 Oct 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #144910. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #144910. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
The three members all concern the desktop app's window opacity on Linux, including a report of very low default opacity (6%) from a translucency default applied via setOpacity, and changes about keeping native opacity off platforms without translucency. Titles alone do not confirm the exact scope or outcome of each change.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#144910 Linux Desktop windows are no longer permanently see-through (salvage #143549)
files:
apps/desktop/electron/main.ts,apps/desktop/electron/translucency.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/translucency.ts,apps/desktop/src/store/translucency.linux.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/store/translucency.ts,apps/shared/src/translucency.ts
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: merged via another change 1
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#143549 fix(desktop): keep the native window opacity off platforms without translucency · merged via another change →
b5868c1,#144910
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#143426Linux desktop launches with 6% window opacity — translucency default applied via setOpacity, and Settings hides the control
How this cluster was grouped
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Link evidence (
structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference. -
Pairwise link density
0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36.1.00means every pair is linked.
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #144910
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 26 Oct 2026