[SOLVED] Incomplete compositing support in i3-wm

Question

I have no idea what transset-df does differently that allows the transparency
to work properly, but there must be something. I have .Xresources entries:
URxvt*depth:32
URxvt*background:rgba:1111/1111/1111/cccc
and I am running xcompmgr, but when a new I open a new urxvt, the
it is totally opaque.
However, running transset-df and selecting the terminal has the transparency
working flawlessly.
Is it actually impossible to get this working? I'm really confused as to why
transset-df is capable of causing this behaviour, but I can't seem to have it
working in any other way?
Any help - or even some indication as to what's going on here - would really
be appreciated
Thanks
Last edited by hseu (2012-02-23 17:44:41)

Answer 1

I'm starting to think it's i3's fault then. If you have it working for dwm and I have
had it working with dwm (to some degree), then the next logical explanation is
that i3 doesn't support xcompmgr fully?
I know it does at least partially because
xcompmgr -c -C -f -F
gets me some of the fade between windows/workspaces, but this is similar to
transset-df in that it changes the entire window's transparency, not just the
background.
This is something I would really like to work but it's looking like i3 doesn't
have full support for composited transparency.
Is it possible that this is down to the wm and nothing else?
EDIT: Spelling
Last edited by hseu (2012-02-23 11:28:27)