[Solved] Steam Displaying Oddly on All Workspaces (Openbox)

Recently I've had Steam behave oddly on all non-steam workspaces. I have it on workspace one, but it is showing through other applications. If I scroll over to the browser workspace, steam will display the main steam window through firefox window, or through various other applications (such as a file browser). It does this almost 100% of the time, and it only started happening recently, but I don't recall any large changes. It does not do this on any other WM/DE that I have tried either (Gnome, Fluxbox, Cinnamon, etc). It seems it may be an issue with Openbox exclusively.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Or even pointing into the direction of the issue so I can do my own research. But I'm at a loss currently as to what I can look for.
Last edited by Neikron (2014-02-04 22:09:04)

tonk wrote:
I quote myself from the bspwm issue list.
one 'workaround' is to use a compositor (e.g. compton, xcompmgr etc.) I think it's nvidias fault, seems to happen with different wm's not just bspwm.
I'm using compton. Whithout compton running i have the same problems.
Awesome, thanks! I just enabled compton, and immediately it looks like things are working as normal again. This is such an odd issue. I hope nvidia fixes this soon. I'm really glad that I did not roll back anything, however. That would have been a tedious process. Thanks for the advice!
Edit: I'll mark this as solved after an hour or so, just to make sure it doesn't sneak back up and bite me.
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