update

home/aiden/.config/niri/style.kdl

@@ -97,11 +97,30 @@ animations {
 // enable transparency
 window-rule {
   match is-active=false
-  opacity 1.0 //inactive transparency
+  opacity 0.8 //inactive transparency
+  background-effect {
+    blur true
+    //xray false
+  }
 }
 window-rule {
   match is-active=true
-  opacity 1.0 //active transparency
+  opacity 0.95 //active transparency
+  background-effect {
+    blur true
+    //xray false
+  }
+}
+// Make top and overlay layers use the regular blur (if enabled),
+// while bottom and background layers keep using the efficient xray blur.
+layer-rule {
+    match layer="top"
+    match layer="overlay"
+
+    background-effect {
+        //blur true
+        xray false
+    }
 }
 window-rule {
   draw-border-with-background false

home/aiden/.config/niri/workspaces.kdl

@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ window-rule {
 //}
 
 // WORKSAPCE: VM
-workspace "VM" {
-  open-on-output "LG Electronics LG ULTRAGEAR 101NTLELA752"
-}
-window-rule {
-  match app-id="virt-manager"
-  open-on-workspace "VM"
-}
-window-rule {
-  match app-id="VirtualBox Manager"
-  open-on-workspace "VM"
-}
+//workspace "VM" {
+//  open-on-output "LG Electronics LG ULTRAGEAR 101NTLELA752"
+//}
+//window-rule {
+//  match app-id="virt-manager"
+//  open-on-workspace "VM"
+//}
+//window-rule {
+//  match app-id="VirtualBox Manager"
+//  open-on-workspace "VM"
+//}