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