[SOLVED] Dzen2 shadows

Question

So I've got dzen set up with two bars on the top so that I can have a part of it left aligned and part right aligned.
The problem is that with xcompmgr running it causes a shadow along the edge of the two bars;
Finally, here is the part of my script that starts my dzen, printRight and printLeft are variables containing my code.
#Print all and pipe into dzen
conky -c $CONKYFILE -u $INTERVAL | printRight | dzen2 -x $X_POS_R -y $Y_POS -w $WIDTH_R -h $HEIGHT -fn $FONT -ta 'r' -bg $DZEN_BG -fg $DZEN_FG -p -e '' &
conky -c $CONKYFILE -u $INTERVAL | printLeft | dzen2 -x $X_POS_L -y $Y_POS -w $WIDTH_L -h $HEIGHT -fn $FONT -ta 'l' -bg $DZEN_BG -fg $DZEN_FG -p -e ''
Anyone have any tricks on how to get rid of the shadow on dzen?
Last edited by jbritton (2012-02-03 01:58:51)

Answer 1

Ok I didn't find the script but here's how to do it:
Set the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE of the dzenpanel to _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK, unfortunately it doesn't do this itself. You need to run
xprop -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE 32a -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
and click on the dzen bar. To use this in a script either use xdotool to automatically do this or get the xwin-id with
xwininfo -name "dzen title" | sed -n 2p | awk {'print $4'}
and specify it using xprops' -id option.
Example:
xprop -id "$(xwininfo -name "dzen title" | sed -n 2p | awk {'print $4'})" -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE 32a -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
This works for me, but as you have two dzen-panels the xwininfo name might be different or give two ids.
Finally run xcompmgr with the -C option, now it shouldn't draw a shadow on it.