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Apr 2026 | 22 posts

How to make helix themes transparent. You can make any built-in theme transparent in helix with one line, a few extras and you can make all the pop ups, help menus and status line trransparant as well.

mkdir -p ~/.config/helix/themes hx

:o ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml

# ~/.config/helix/themes/dracula_transparant.toml inherits = "dracula" "ui.background" = { fg = "foreground" } "ui.menu" = { fg = "white" } "ui.popup" = { fg = "white" } "ui.window" = { fg = "white" } "ui.help" = { fg = "light-gray" } "ui.statusline" = { fg = "gray" } "ui.statusline.inactive" = { fg = "black" }

:config-edit