diff --git a/dunst/.config/dunst/dunstrc b/dunst/.config/dunst/dunstrc
index 21f16df..655ae7e 100644
--- a/dunst/.config/dunst/dunstrc
+++ b/dunst/.config/dunst/dunstrc
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
     # The transparency of the window. range: [0; 100]
     # This option will only work if a compositing windowmanager is present (e.g. xcompmgr, compiz, etc..)
-    transparency = 0
+    transparency = 20
 
     # Don't remove messages, if the user is idle (no mouse or keyboard input)
     # for longer than idle_threshold seconds.