How do i make tokyonight floats and sidebars transparent?

[Mrid22]

currently in my home.nix i have (home.nix) :
`extraConfig = ''
opts =
styles = {
sidebars = "transparent",
floats = "transparent",
};
}
'';

`

which results in (init.lua):
`-- SECTION: theme
opts = {
styles = {
sidebars = "transparent",
floats = "transparent",
};
}

require('tokyonight').setup {
transparent = true;
}
vim.cmd[[colorscheme tokyonight-storm]]

`
Anyway to move the extra config inside require? or a better (more nixy) way to do this?

[jules-sommer]

I think what you're looking for is to set float's highlight group to have a transparent background, and you can achieve that by adding some highlight groups to the option vim.highlight like this:

vim.highlight = {
    NormalFloat = {
      bg = "NONE";
      blend = 30;
    };
};
# there is also
Pmenu.link = "NormalFloat";
FloatBorder = {
  fg = "#ffffff";
  bg = "NONE";
};

I think though I am not entirely sure, setting the null value for bg instead of "NONE", which is a special value that neovim understands to mean no background, see :help highlight-args:

	There are a few special names:
		NONE		no color (transparent)

Anyways, for context, the fg, bg options do what you'd expect, but I also usually set blend (an integer value 1..100) which is basically how much or little to blend the background with the colors behind it. Which can be nice for floats.

blend={integer}					*highlight-blend* *opacity*
	Override the blend level for a highlight group within the popupmenu
	or floating windows. Only takes effect if 'pumblend' or 'winblend'
	is set for the menu or window. See the help at the respective option.

	See also the "blend" flag of |nvim_buf_set_extmark()|.