Re: [fluxbox-users] xcompmgr/compton + compositing + fluxbox

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Javier Vasquez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To enable the Xorg compositing extension, and be able to use true
> transparency, I'm using compton (I've used xcompmgr with worse
> results), but I experience some problems:
>
> 1.-  At times, though fluxbox is still up and running, it stops
> managing the non GTK/QT applications, such xterm or rxvt-unicode.  The
> only way to get fluxbox to start controlling them again is through a
> fluxbox restart.
>
> 2.-  At times, when restarting fluxbox due to [1], the X session dies,
> and a new login is required.
>
> As I said, with xcompmgr the problems show up more often, both [1] and
> [2].  That's why I keep using compton.
>
> First, is there any other way to enable Xorg compositing extension,
> and provide true transparency, like gtk applications with transparent
> menus, rxvt-unicode true transparency, and fluxbox transparent menus
> and toolbars, and so on, rathen than using compositing managers?
>
> If not, any other guys experimenting this?  How to avoid these problems?
>
> In case, I'm calling compton in my ~/.xinitrc, prior to calling
> startfluxbox, like this:
>
> compton -bc -o 0.22 -m 0.88 &
>
> I'm not having any particular Xorg configuration to enable compositing.
>
> Some fluxbox setting to take advantage of transparency:
>
> session.screen0.menu.alpha:                  210
> session.screen0.slit.alpha:                       210
> session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha:  215
> session.screen0.toolbar.alpha:                 210
>
> For rxvt-unicode:
>
> URxvt*.depth:               32
> URxvt*.background:      [88]#000000
>
> And for conky:
>
> own_window_argb_visual = true,
> own_window_transparent = true,
>
> Don't think those settings will help anything, but just in case...
> One more thing, I'm using Arch GNU/Linux for x86-64.


In case needed, the fluxbox version is 1.3.7, the compton version
0.1_beta2, and the xcompmgr 1.1.7.

Thanks,

-- 
Javier

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