Fellas, I'm at my wit's end with this one.
I'm trying to set a general rule for window opacity in sway, and then have a few programs excepted from it.
Back on i3 with picom, I could do this pretty easily by setting activeOpacity to 0.9, for example, and then specifying additional opacityRules like this:
Likewise, hyprland's window rules made it pretty easy to override the general opacity rules as well.
I can't seem to get this on sway, though; if I set it up like this:
[app_id=".*"] opacity 0.85
[app_id="brave-browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="librewolf"] opacity 1
it simply sets everything to 0.85.
Currently, I have this:
[app_id="^(?!mpv$|brave-browser$).*$"] opacity 0.85
[app_id="brave-browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="mpv"] opacity 1
but it is still exhibiting the same behavior (except mpv also seems to totally disregard any opacity rules whatsoever).
Any help is greatly appreciated---I haven't been able to find anyone else asking or talking about what seems to me like pretty basic functionality.
UPDATE:
Months later, I have it working—it seems my regex was incorrect.
Indeed, you cannot apply opacity rules twice (once with a wildcard, and again for specific windows after), so the way to do it is with a regex like this:
I guess I should have written the post a bit more clearly.
I’ve got the for_window part, it’s just that after I set the opacity for all windows app_id=.*, the following lines of the config cannot override that for the specific windows I want different opacities for.
My guess is that sway checks sets the opacity when the window open, so when the first rule matches (app_id=.*) it skips all others, so maybe try putting the other 2 rules above the first one?
Sorry if my comment is incomprehensible, I've just woken up.