How to turn off shadows in i3status?

[nyuke]

Hello everyone this my first post in this community <3!
So far I’ve been enjoying the manjaro i3 flavor but had one question in my mind, How do i remove shadows under the i3status bar? (Screenshot attached)

I searched few places and found that it has something to do with compton? I tried making a config with a single line

shadows = false;

but that didn’t worked. Thanks for your help!

Edit 1: can’t attach screenshots or add links

Edit 2: imgur[dot]com/eUMNXD6

[anon88624618]

You can add the ‘-C’ argument to your picom execution command in ~/.i3/config.

Example:
exec --no-startup-id nitrogen --restore; sleep 1; picom -C -b

[nyuke]

@mangiaro Thanks! Worked like charm!

[bill_t]

According to the man page of picom (man picom) the -C or --no-dock-shadow option is deprecated and the suggestion is to use the wintypes option instead.

In your ~/.config/picom.conf file you can add this

wintypes : 
{
  dock :
  {
	shadow = false;
  };
};

in order to disable shadows in all windows with window type “dock”.

Another option would be to create a new rule in the shadow-exclude option of picom in your ~/.config/picom.conf file, in order to disable shadows for the i3bar only:

shadow-exclude = [
    ...
    "class_g ?= 'i3bar'",
    ...

];