[SOLVED] awesome & urxvt results in some screen flickering

Question

Hi,
i've been using awesome since a few weeks and i noticed a flickering problem when starting urxvt (via mod4+enter).
urxvt starts, disappears, comes back again, disappears and so on.
starting up urxvt (time until i get a usable promt) takes about 1-2 seconds.
However, i don't know how to track the problem down. Maybe it is urxvt's (i think it is), maybe it is awesome's or even ati's fault (using 2.6.32 with open source ati driver).
when i switch between multiple windows (using mod4+n) only urxvt windows are flickering. Switching between gui-apps (ff, dolphin, …) works as expected.
maybe someone has an idea about this …
Here are the configs:
.Xdefaults:
!URxvt settings
!--[Title]--!
URxvt*title: urxvtc
URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
URxvt*cursorBlink: true
URxvt*urgentOnBell: true
!--[Url's /launching/marking/yanking]--!
URxvt.perl-ext: default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher: /usr/bin/firefox
URxvt.matcher.button: 1
!--[Fonts]--!
URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14:antialias=false
URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true:antialias=false
URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true:antialias=false
URxvt.underlineColor: yellow
URxvt.scrollBar: false
!--[Urxvt Options]--!
URxvt.boldMode: false
URxvt.imLocale: de_AT.UTF-8
URxvt.loginShell: true
URxvt.saveLines: 512
URxvt.inheritPixmap: true
URxvt.borderless: true
URxvt.jumpScroll: true
URxvt.tintColor: white
URxvt.internalBorder: 0
URxvt.cursorBlink: false
URxvt.cursorColor: #dd9900
URxvt.cursorColor2: #000000
URxvt.background: #222222
URxvt.foreground: #ddccbb
URxvt.colorBD: #ffffff
URxvt.colorIT: #bbbbbb
URxvt.colorUL: #999999
URxvt.underlineColor: #999999
URxvt*saveLines: 512
!URxvt*depth: 32
!URxvt*background: rgba:02f0/04f0/04f0/cccc
URxvt*transparent: true
URxvt*shading: 10
!--[Colours]--!
!Theme One from
!http://phraktured.net/terminal-colors/terminal%20theme.tags.html
*background: rgb:00/00/00
*foreground: rgb:a8/a8/a8
*color0: rgb:00/00/00
*color1: rgb:a8/00/00
*color2: rgb:00/a8/00
*color3: rgb:a8/54/00
*color4: rgb:00/00/a8
*color5: rgb:a8/00/a8
*color6: rgb:00/a8/a8
*color7: rgb:a8/a8/a8
*color8: rgb:54/50/54
*color9: rgb:f8/54/50
*color10: rgb:50/fc/50
*color11: rgb:f8/fc/50
*color12: rgb:50/54/f8
*color13: rgb:f8/54/f8
*color14: rgb:50/fc/f8
*color15: rgb:f8/fc/f8
http://github.com/nblock/config/blob/master/.Xdefaults
rc.lua:
-- {{{ Load libraries
-- Standard awesome library
require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")
require("awful.rules")
-- Theme handling library
require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
require("naughty")
require("vicious")
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/zenburn/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "urxvtc"
editor = "vim"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
awful.layout.suit.tile, --1
awful.layout.suit.tile.left, --2
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom, --3
awful.layout.suit.tile.top, --4
awful.layout.suit.fair, --5
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal, --6
awful.layout.suit.spiral, --7
awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle, --8
awful.layout.suit.max, --9
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen, --10
awful.layout.suit.magnifier, --11
awful.layout.suit.floating --12
-- some commands
local commands = {}
commands.suspend = "sudo pm-suspend"
commands.help = "touch ~/seppal"
commands.lock = "xscreensaver-command --lock"
commands.screenshot = "scrot -e 'mv $f ~/bilder/screenshots'"
--audio stuff
commands.raisevol = "amixer set PCM 2%+"
commands.lowervol = "amixer set PCM 2%-"
commands.mute = "amixer sset PCM toggle"
commands.cmusnext = "cmus-remote --next"
commands.cmusprev = "cmus-remote --prev"
commands.cmuspause = "cmus-remote --pause"
commands.cmusplay = "cmus-remote --play"
commands.calc = "krunner"
--todo
commands.fileman = "pcmanfm"
commands.calc = "xcalc"
commands.browser = "firefox"
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = awful.tag({
"1 download", "2 mail", "3 chat",
"4 music", "5 news", "6 fm",
7, 8, 9 }, s,
{layouts[3], layouts[1], layouts[1], -- Tags: 1, 2, 3
layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[1], -- 4, 5 ,6
layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[1] -- 7, 8, 9
end
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/rc.lua" },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
{ "open terminal", terminal }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = image(beautiful.awesome_icon),
menu = mymainmenu })
-- {{{ Wibox
-- {{{ Widgets configuration
-- {{{ Reusable separators
local spacer = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "spacer" })
local separator = widget({ type = "textbox", name = "separator" })
spacer.text = " "
separator.text = " <span foreground='red'>•</span> "
-- {{{ CPU load
local cpuwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, "<span foreground='orange'>load: </span><span foreground='green'>$2%</span><span foreground='orange'> - </span><span foreground='green'>$3%</span>")
-- {{{ CPU temperature
local thermalwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(thermalwidget, vicious.widgets.thermal, "<span foreground='orange'>temp: </span><span foreground='green'>$1°C</span>", 20, "thermal_zone1")
-- {{{ Battery state
-- Widget icon
-- baticon = widget({ type = "imagebox", name = "baticon" })
-- baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_bat)
local batwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, "<span foreground='orange'>bat: </span><span foreground='green'>$1$2%</span>", 60, "C1C5")
-- {{{ Date and time
local datewidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, "<span foreground='green'>%a, %d.%m.%y - %H:%M</span>", 5)
-- {{{ Volume widget
local volwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(volwidget, vicious.widgets.volume, "<span foreground='orange'>vol: </span><span foreground='green'>$1%</span>", 1, 'PCM')
-- {{{ System tray
systray = widget({ type = "systray" })
-- {{{ Wibox initialisation
local wibox = {}
local promptbox = {}
local layoutbox = {}
local taglist = {}
taglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev))
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox
promptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt({ layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright })
-- Create a layoutbox
layoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
layoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)
-- Create a taglist widget
taglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.label.all, taglist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
wibox[s] = awful.wibox({
position = "top", screen = s,
fg = beautiful.fg_normal, bg = beautiful.bg_normal
-- Add widgets to the wibox
wibox[s].widgets = {{
launcher, taglist[s], layoutbox[s], promptbox[s],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
s == screen.count() and systray or nil,
spacer, datewidget,
separator, volwidget,
separator, batwidget,
separator, cpuwidget,
separator, thermalwidget,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
--user defined
awful.key({}, "XF86PowerOff", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.suspend) end ),
awful.key({}, "Help", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.help) end ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "F12", function () awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.lock) end),
--audio stuff
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioMute", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.mute) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.raisevol) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.lowervol) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioNext", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.cmusnext) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioPrev", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.cmusprev) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioPlay", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.cmuspause) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86Tools", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.cmusplay) end ),
awful.key({}, "XF86Calculator", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.calc) end ),
awful.key({}, "Print", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.screenshot) end ),
-- awful.key({}, "XF86MyComputer", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.fileman) end ),
-- awful.key({}, "XF86Mail", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.mail) end ),
-- awful.key({}, "XF86HomePage", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.browser) end ),
-- awful.key({}, "XF86Sleep", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.lock) end ),
-- awful.key({"Control", "Mod1"}, "l", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell(commands.lock) end ),
--default bindings
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show(true) end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "n", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Standard program
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function () promptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
-- Run stuff in a Terminal
awful.key({ modkey }, "x", function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run in Terminal: " }, promptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
function (prog)
awful.util.spawn_with_shell(terminal .. " -name " .. prog .. " -e /bin/bash -c " .. prog)
end)
end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "c", function (c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "r", function (c) c:redraw() end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j", function (c) c.minimized = not c.minimized end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end)
-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
keynumber = 0
for s = 1, screen.count() do
keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber));
end
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, keynumber do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end))
end
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = true,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
--floating apps
{ rule = { class = "pinentry-qt4" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Gimp" },
properties = { floating = true } },
--apptags
--downloading stuff
{ rule = { class = "JDownloader" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1],switchtotag = true } },
{ rule = { instance = "rtorrent" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1],switchtotag = false } },
-- mail
{ rule = { class = "Kmail" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][2],switchtotag = true } },
--chat and stuff like that
{ rule = { class = "Choqok" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][3],switchtotag = false } },
{ rule = { class = "Kopete" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][3],switchtotag = false } },
-- cmus
{ rule = { instance = "cmus" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][4],switchtotag = true } },
-- news
{ rule = { instance = "newsbeuter" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][5],switchtotag = true } },
--file manager
{ rule = { class = "Dolphin" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][6],switchtotag = true } },
--misc stuff
{ rule = { class = "Konqueror" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][9],switchtotag = true } },
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.add_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Add a titlebar
-- awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
-- remove gaps
c.size_hints_honor = false
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:add_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
end)
client.add_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.add_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- {{{ Autostart
os.execute("krandrtray &")
-- vim: fdm=marker fdl=0 sts=4 ai
http://github.com/nblock/config/blob/ma … ome/rc.lua
Thanks.
Last edited by nblock (2010-01-02 09:59:24)

Answer 1

Try this .Xdefaults which works with awesome/urxvt.
*utf8: 1
*faceSize: 10
*jumpScroll: true
*multiScroll: true
*boldMode: false
*scrollBar: false
*cutNewline: false
*scrollTtyOutput: false
*scrollKey: true
*cursorBlink: true
*dynamicColors: true
*saveLines: 5000
*geometry: 125x45
! URxvt
URxvt*termName: xterm
URxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:antialias=true:pixelsize=12
!urxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12:antialias=true
URxvt*transparent: false
URxvt*tintColor: #666666
URxvt*shading: 50
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*internalBorder: 5
URxvt*urgentOnBell: true
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: true
URxvt*underlineColor: yellow
URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt*matcher.button: 1
URxvt*matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]\\.[\\w./?&@#-]*[\\w/-]
! Colours
*background: #303030
*foreground: #f2f2f2
*cursorColor: #999
*highlightColor: #333
*color0: #101010
*color1: #f13a21
*color2: #93f91d
*color3: #ffd00a
*color4: #404f9e
*color5: #ec0048
*color6: #2aa7e7
*color7: #f2f2f2
*color8: #1d202f
*color9: #ff361e
*color10: #ffc005
*color11: #93ff00
*color12: #3071ff
*color13: #ef0051
*color14: #4bb8fd
*color15: #a020f0
Last edited by r6 (2010-01-02 05:05:11)