System tray icons overlap when changing status

Let’s take the wifi (nm-applet ) and bluetooth (blueman-applet) system tray icons.

When I am connected to wifi and bluetooth is on, they look like this: If I disconnect wifi and disable bluetooth, they should look like this: But what actually happens is they end up overlapping on top of each other, looking like this:

Right now, I would have to do a qtile restart if I wanted the icons to look as they should.

Using latest Qtile on Arch.

[elParaguayo]

I suspect they’re doing some form of pseudo-transparency where they take the surface underneath the bar and copy that image to the tray.

[elParaguayo]

Hang on…

32 bit is the default depth for windows, this is only changed to 24 if the bar thinks you don’t need transparency.

Looking at your theme bg values, none of them have an alpha value so this will force the bar to be 32 bit.

Can you add an alpha value and see what happens.