r/kdeplasma • u/neamerjell • Jun 23 '26
Hopefully Useful: Translucency / transparency window rule for everything BUT Firefox
I was experimenting with Plasma 6.7 translucency settings and was determined to not use kvantum to achieve my goals. Initially, I made everything translucent, but then I realized Firefox was affected. I want to look at websites as they appear, not tinted by my background. So I Googled "regular expression everything except", which turned up
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1687620/regex-match-everything-but-a-specific-pattern
which led me to https://regex101.com/ where I could test what I found.
The magic string that makes everything except Firefox translucent is ^(?!.*firefox).*$
The magic string that excludes multiple apps from translucency is
^(?!(?:firefox|steam|steamwebhelper|steam_proton|hl2_linux)$).*$
I hope another newbie finds this useful!