For people who want transparent and blurry caelestia

[AleksElixir]

hyprland layerrule

# Shell
layerrule = no_anim true, match:namespace caelestia-(launcher|osd|notifications|border-exclusion|area-p>
layerrule = animation fade, match:namespace caelestia-(drawers|background>
layerrule = order 1, match:namespace caelestia-border-exclusion
layerrule = order 2, match:namespace caelestia-bar
layerrule = xray 1, match:namespace caelestia-(border|launcher|bar|sidebar|navbar|mediadisplay|sc>
layerrule = blur true, match:namespace caelestia-.*
layerrule = blur true, match:namespace qs-.*
layerrule = ignore_alpha 0.57, match:namespace caelestia-.*

Caelestia config

"transparency": {
            "enabled": true,
            "base": 0.6,
            "layers": 0.2
        }

And to edit color schemes the location of the color-schemes is here:
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/caelestia/data/schemes

Credits to the people who found how to do this(searched the web and found they're comments for these), and to the people that updated this:
belabh, soramanew, phirrehan

Video_2025-11-01_14-31-43.mp4

[toast1029384756]

Excuse me, but which config file to i modify to achive this?
im fairly new to Caelestia with only a few months of this as my daily driver and i havent found any configs for this..

Thanks,
-Riv

[nuknes]

Excuse me, but which config file to i modify to achive this? im fairly new to Caelestia with only a few months of this as my daily driver and i havent found any configs for this..

Thanks, -Riv

transparency
~/.config/caelestia/shell.json

layerrule
~/.config/caelestia/hypr-user.conf

[3XPLwastaken]

doesnt seem like anything happens for me, but saving to the shell.json does show a notification saying that the config wa reloaded.

[phirrehan]

due to the recent hyprland rules update, the rules mentioned above broke.

tried to fix it like so:

# Shell
layerrule = no_anim true, match:namespace caelestia-(launcher|osd|notifications|border-exclusion|area-p>
layerrule = animation fade, match:namespace caelestia-(drawers|background>
layerrule = order 1, match:namespace caelestia-border-exclusion
layerrule = order 2, match:namespace caelestia-bar
layerrule = xray 1, match:namespace caelestia-(border|launcher|bar|sidebar|navbar|mediadisplay|sc>
layerrule = blur true, match:namespace caelestia-.*
layerrule = blur true, match:namespace qs-.*
layerrule = ignore_alpha 0.57, match:namespace caelestia-.*

[AleksElixir]

thx just updated myself also to the latest hyprland, these settings work

[Hotaro26]

my blur is just depenedent on wallpaper, it should take whats behind it right?

[DRKCTRLDEV]

I believe if you want just wallpaper, you'd set Xray to on, and if you want wallpaper along with other layers, you'd set Xray to off in your Hypr config...

look at this for more details.. https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Variables/#blur

[danielhenrique090109]

Hello guys, I'm trying to modify as said, it's simply when updating just modifying the appearanceconfig.qml it doesn't work, then I came to this post to find out something you said to modify this second file said I modified it every time I put something I got an error, could anyone help? maybe it's an updated version?

[MehmedDavid]

Hi, I am new to Linux. I use CachyOS. I liked your auto-hide sidebar. How did you do that? I will be grateful if you help me. I am struggling with configurations and customizations. Can you help me?

[YanamiRei]

dw, i opened a PR for it

[Hotaro26]

can u share me your hyprland.conf im having issues getting blur

[MehmedDavid]

Where do you want the blur? On terminal?

[YanamiRei]

can u share me your hyprland.conf im having issues getting blur

You shouldn't need to make any modification to the files located at ~/.config/hypr/. You can change most of things (including blur) using the settings app (type >Settings in the launcher). You can also edit the file at ~/.config/caelestia/shell.json. Example file is available in the readme

[evertiro]

can u share me your hyprland.conf im having issues getting blur

You shouldn't need to make any modification to the files located at ~/.config/hypr/. You can change most of things (including blur) using the settings app (type >Settings in the launcher). You can also edit the file at ~/.config/caelestia/shell.json. Example file is available in the readme

Yes, but also hyprland configs go in ~/.config/caelestia/hypr-user.conf and variables go in ~/.config/caelestia/hypr-vars.conf

[alisherozodov]

After hyprland converted to lua, those settings aren't working for me, how to do it in the new hyprland?

[soramanew]

You do not need to manually specify the rules anymore, the shell handles it automatically now. If you enable transparency in the Nexus it will automatically be blurred.

[legendjunior0]

You do not need to manually specify the rules anymore, the shell handles it automatically now. If you enable transparency in the Nexus it will automatically be blurred.

i want to turn off the transparency for the sidebar, how??

[khidir0mmku]

i think just deleted it

[AleksElixir]

I dont use caelestia anymore and am making my own quickshell shell, if anyone could give me a updated versuon of this guid I can update it thx.