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How to Apply Transparent Background Glass Effect to VSCode IDE Editor
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Jul 8, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS code
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extension which will apply a transparent
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background glass effect.
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So there is a third party extension that
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you can install here which is called as
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glassit. If you just type this glassit
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glass it this is the name of the
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extension and this extension will right
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here come right here. If you see it's
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got almost 560,000
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installs. So what this extension will
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do, it will change your VS code to a
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transparent. You can see that now it has
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changed it like this.
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You can see how cool this effect is
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looking. And simply you just need to
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navigate to the search bar. Simply type
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this glass. It simply activate this. If
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you just want to disable this, you can
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disable this extension. I just need to
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restart the extension for disabling. So
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if you just want to enable this, you can
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simply enable this and this will
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actually
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make your visual studio transparent like
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a glass effect.
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Uh it actually adds a property here
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which you can control in the user
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setting file. If you drag down this
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property here glassit alpha. So this is
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uh by default it is set to 220 but in
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the documentation they have shown right
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here
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it basically
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1 to 255 and there is another property
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step increment of alpha. Alpha is
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nothing but is opacity.
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So it is set to 255
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220 by default. You can even change to
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255.
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So
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just need to restart the editor to take
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the changes.
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So now you can see the changes are taken
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place.
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If you decrease the value here, it will
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like this. So this is the extension
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guys.
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Thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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