[rxvt-unicode]pseudo-transparency not working with Awesome WM (solved)

Hi all,
first of all, let me tell you that I googled about this problem, I read the Archwiki, the rxvt FAQ and several threads in multiple forums but nothing that I found actually worked.
I'm using Awesome WM and OpenBox and my rxvt is the standard rxvt-unicode from the repos.
Since an update, rxvt is not transparent anymore (I was using pseudo-transparency). Actually, transparency works with OpenBox but it does not work with Awesome WM. I find it very weird.
I tried increasing the shading value in .Xdefaults as suggested in an other thread in this form but it did not help at all. I thought the problem was that I needed libafterimage so I installed it but then, how to use it?
Does someone have any idea about this? I'd be very thankfull!
Last edited by Sherwood51 (2011-01-18 17:04:37)

And how exactly did you get it to work with feh ? I keep failing to get pseudo-transparency.
My theme.lua has this:
awsetbg -f -u feh path/to/wallpaper
and I also tried this:
feh --bg-scale path/to/wallpaper
and in Xdefaults:
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URxvt*depth 24 ( doesn't work with 32 either )
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EDIT:
I got cairo working ( finally ), so I have true transparency, so don't mind my post.
Last edited by Varg (2011-01-19 21:08:33)

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