urxvt vim transparent colorscheme

Question

I have urxvt running in real transparency mode using xcompmgr. Everything looks great but I would like my vim colorscheme to respect the transparency setting. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Vim itself won't be able to apply varying alpha levels to its colors. You'll have to change the Normal highlight in your colorscheme from:

hi Normal ctermbg=<whatever> ctermfg=<whatever>

to:

hi Normal ctermfg=<whatever>

In short: remove your colorscheme's backgound color definition.