Thanks everyone for posting suggestions .I put together a summary here: https://iamkonstantin.eu/blog/finding-a-good-irc-client-for-macos/@obrhoff @mdhughes @ParadeGrotesque@jlecour @qubex @rolle @fmarini @Setok @nxadm cc @phranck
@konstantin I wondered… could you 'hack' the occluded part of the background image to force the OS to make it look like that (ie, subtle gradient, but otherwise opaque)?