Hi guys
I just discovered a small bug with the Matcha theme in connection with VirtualBox under Manjaro Xfce. Since Kvantum was reintegrated into the default installation here (temporarily it had been removed, now it is part of it again), the guest window of VirtualBox is almost transparent and unreadable. I found out that the reason for this problem is in the setting within Kavntum Manager that affects the translucent windows in Matcha theme.
In the list of apps that should be ignored by the translucency in the Matcha theme, there is also the entry âVirtualBoxâ, it can be found under:
Configure active theme â compositing & General look â Translucent windows
As soon as I change the entry to âVirtualBoxVMâ, the guest window looks completely normal again. However, it is not clear to me here whether the âVirtualBoxâ entry is just incomplete and needs to be changed, or whether it would be better to make an additional âVirtualBoxVMâ entry instead.
@philm I would like to ask you to patch the Matcha theme accordingly, so that you donât have to change something manually every time. The problem affects all installations of Manjaro Xfce that I have tested, even the fresh ones.
Best Regards 
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Patch it how?
FYI, the Matcha Kvantum theme hasnât been updated for over three years.
Hmm. 
Then, why is the guest window transparency issue in VirtualBox only occurring for a few months since Kvantum was added back to the default Manjaro Xfce configuration (possibly just as a dependency?). I can attach a screenshot if it helps. Anyway, VirtualBox is unusable in this state.
It affects the current VirtualBox version 6.1.36 as well as the previous version 6.1.34 (I noticed the problem only in these two). Possibly something was renamed in VirtualBox itself? Or when Kvantum Manager was temporarily removed from the default configuration, entries were lost or changed? I donât know.
This is well known - and mentioned in the Virtualbox guide found elsewhere
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Thank you, that actually confirms what I wrote before. As I said, the entry âVirtualBoxâ is present in the corresponding list of Opaque apps, but not the entry âVirtualBoxVMâ, which is obviously also needed. My question would simply be whether this could not also be added by default through a corresponding change in the theme. That would just be handy and might clear some confusion. However, I am surprised that it had worked until some time ago without manual intervention, or the problem with the translucent guest window did not occur. Whether someone or who has changed something here, is probably not discernible.
It is the default behavior of Qt and Kvantum which produces the issue - nothing much to be done at theme level.
Hi @philm, @Yochanan, hi all 
I just checked with the developer of Kvantum Manager, who said that the entry âVirtualBoxVMâ is definitely present in the list of applications to be ignored by the translucency. He said that each theme can have its own Opaque apps list. See the following Link here
According to this, the corresponding entry would have to be added to the Matcha theme after all. Without it, the guest window of VirtualBox is simply not usable in Manjaro Xfce.
Hello, this is an older post, but I only noticed this behaviour since the last update to Manjaro 22.1.0. I still had a Manjaro 21.3.7 in a virtual lab environment and checked what the theme was called there: matchama was activated there by default (not matcha). However, this seems to have been removed during the update to 22.1.0.
I have therefore changed to the theme âkvArcâ in my productive environment, which is actually quite good for my applications.
Addendum: I have to correct the above statement: The package was not removed with the update, but by me when I removed the orphaned packages with âpamac remove --orphansâ due to another problem. Just still pulled up in my old virtual machine. When I list the orphaned packages using âpamac list --orphansâ, the package âkvantum-theme-matchamaâ is listed. From the info I see that this was actually created for kde. But it is no longer in the repository. This is just for the sake of completeness.
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