(unimportant) (Openbox) URxvt transparency no more

I've been fiddling with my new Arch install over the past few days and so far I'm loving Openbox on it.
I had URxvt set up very nicely using the .Xdefault from the wiki, and have xcompmgr -n starting when Openbox opens, however after removing/reinstalling Xcompmgr after trying another compositor, URxvt isn't capable of transparency anymore.
.Xdefault:
URxvt.geometry: 128x32
URxvt.buffered: true
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: white
URxvt.cursorColor: green
URxvt.underlineColor: white
URxvt.font:xft:Clean:pixelsize=8:antialias=false
#URxvt*borderLess: true
URxvt*scrollstyle: plain
URxvt.perl-ext: default,url-select
URxvt.keysym.M-u: perl:url-select:select_next
URxvt.urlLauncher: /usr/bin/firefox
URxvt.underlineURLs: true
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: -2
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: -1
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: 10
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: -1
!True Transparency
!set to 32-bit for real transparency (compositing required [see xcompmgr])
urxvt*depth: 32
!transparent=0000 opaque=ffff
urxvt*background: rgba:1111/1111/1111/dddd
!urxvt*background: rgba:1111/1111/1111/0000
!False Transparency
!URxvt.transparent: true
!URxvt.shading: 50
Urxvt.secondaryScroll: true
.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec awesome
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
stalonetray &
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
And what I've added to the bottom of ~/.conf/openbox/autostart.sh:
# Launch Xcompmgr and tint2 with openbox
if which tint2 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
(sleep 2 && xcompmgr -n) &
(sleep 2 && tint2) &
fi
# Restore wallpaper
sh ~/.fehbg &
I added the -n to the xcompmgr line in autostart.sh after URxvt lost transparency, but it has had no effect.
Edits:
Changed thread name to specify I'm on Openbox.
Last edited by Mecharuva (2010-08-30 23:10:19)

Ah that's what I thought. Will grab xcompmgr-git right now.
And I'll uninstall the regular since I assume that's what I should do.
Edit:
Wow, still nothing.
Installed xcompmgr-git after running pacman -Rnsu xcompmgr, ran openbox --reconfigure (if that does ANYTHING, I don't know) and changed ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh to run xcompmgr -CncfF also.
I just don't know what's going on.
Last edited by Mecharuva (2010-08-31 00:27:17)

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brisbin33 wrote:
for transparency:
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for maximized:
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Hello brisbin33, cheers for the prompt reply!
are you running xcompmgr?
yes, I use it for shades around my borders
do you have composite enabled in xorg.conf?
I don't use xorg.conf at all, I rely completly on input hotplugging through xorg-server and HAL, btw I was under the impression xorg-server (input hotplugging) completly ignores your xorg.conf if it's set to use HAL as autodection?
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
<resistance>
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<screen_edge_strength>20</screen_edge_strength>
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<focus>
<focusNew>yes</focusNew>

<followMouse>no</followMouse>

<focusLast>yes</focusLast>

<underMouse>no</underMouse>

<focusDelay>200</focusDelay>

<raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>

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<placement>
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<center>yes</center>

<monitor>Any</monitor>

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<keepBorder>yes</keepBorder>
<animateIconify>yes</animateIconify>

<name>sans</name>
<size>10</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>10</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>10</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>10</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>10</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>


</theme>
<desktops>

<number>2</number>
<firstdesk>1</firstdesk>
<names>

</names>
<popupTime>875</popupTime>

</desktops>
<resize>
<drawContents>yes</drawContents>
<popupShow>Nonpixel</popupShow>

<popupPosition>Center</popupPosition>

<popupFixedPosition>

<x>10</x>

<y>10</y>

</popupFixedPosition>
</resize>

<margins>
<top>0</top>
<bottom>0</bottom>
<left>0</left>
<right>0</right>
</margins>
<dock>
<position>TopLeft</position>

<floatingX>0</floatingX>
<floatingY>0</floatingY>
<noStrut>no</noStrut>
<stacking>Above</stacking>

<direction>Vertical</direction>

<autoHide>no</autoHide>
<hideDelay>300</hideDelay>

<showDelay>300</showDelay>

<moveButton>Middle</moveButton>

</dock>
<keyboard>
<chainQuitKey>C-g</chainQuitKey>

<keybind key="C-A-Left">
<action name="DesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Right">
<action name="DesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
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</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Up">
<action name="DesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
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</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Down">
<action name="DesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
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</keybind>
<keybind key="S-A-Left">
<action name="SendToDesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-A-Right">
<action name="SendToDesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-A-Up">
<action name="SendToDesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-A-Down">
<action name="SendToDesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F1">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>1</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F2">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>2</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F3">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>3</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F4">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>4</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-d">
<action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-d">
<action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
</keybind>

<keybind key="A-F4">
<action name="Close"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-Escape">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-space">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
<action name="PreviousWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow">
<panels>yes</panels>
<desktop>yes</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="W-e">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>PCManFM</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>pcmanfm</command>
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</keybind>

<keybind key="W-r">
<action name="Execute">
<command>lxpanelctl run</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-F2">
<action name="Execute">
<command>lxpanelctl run</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-Escape">
<action name="Execute">
<command>lxpanelctl menu</command>
</action>
</keybind>
</keyboard>
<mouse>
<dragThreshold>8</dragThreshold>

<doubleClickTime>200</doubleClickTime>

<screenEdgeWarpTime>400</screenEdgeWarpTime>

<context name="Frame">
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Click">
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<action name="Resize"/>
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<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
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<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
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<mousebind button="C-A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
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<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="A-S-Down" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="DoubleClick">
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<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
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<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
<action name="Lower"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
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<context name="Top">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>top</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
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<context name="Left">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>left</edge>
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<context name="Right">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
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<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
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<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
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<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
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<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
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<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
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<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
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<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
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<action name="Raise"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
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<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<action name="ShowMenu">
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<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
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<action name="Raise"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
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<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
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<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
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<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Click">
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<context name="Close">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Close"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Desktop">
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
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<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
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<action name="Raise"/>
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<menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
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<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
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<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
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<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
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<file>/usr/share/lxde/openbox/menu.xml</file>
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<submenuShowDelay>100</submenuShowDelay>

<applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons>

<manageDesktops>yes</manageDesktops>

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My .Xdefaults:
URxvt*transparent:true
URxvt*scrollBar:false
URxvt*foreground:Green
!URxvt*borderless:false
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Intel drivers
The new Intel driver, xf86-video-intel, comes with compositing enabled by default. It's configured to use the newer EXA acceleration method, but the default build options can result in very slugish performance. In these cases, adding these options to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf can improve the situation dramatically:
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
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Last edited by greenfish (2009-02-26 17:58:34)

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!URxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:hinting=true
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URxvt*boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:hinting=true
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!URxvt*boldFont: xft:Liberation Mono:bold:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:hinting=true
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!URxvt*font: xft:terminus:pixelsize=15
!URxvt*boldFont: xft:terminus:bold:pixelsize=15
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! scrollbar position - left=false (default) or right=true
URxvt*scrollBar_right: false
! scrollbar style - rxvt (default), plain, next, or xterm
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Trying to get dwm, urxvt, transparency to work nicely together

New Arch user here, great distribution.
I've been trying to set up dwm with the Monaco font (great monospace/ttf font) and transparency. As you know, dwm launches uxterm by default as a new terminal. I wanted something with transparency, so I tried urxvt and tried to get it to use "fake" transparency (I could try real transparency, but when I launch xcompmgr I get a plethora of streaming error messages, so I guess I'll have the fake stuff). My ~.Xresources file looks like so:
! URxvt*font: Monaco
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URxvt*foreground: white
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URxvt*multichar_encoding: utf-8
URxvt*transparent: true
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URxvt*shading: 50
URxvt*loginShell: true
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*scrollKey: true
URxvt*saveLines: 3000
I grabbed this somewhere from the net. I've commented out the font, because its another issue and I'll address it below. After saving this, and running xrdb -load ~/.Xresources, I try launching urxvt. The colors work fine (background and foreground), but I can't seem to get the transparency working at all. Instead its just a solid color.
As for the font, I installed Monaco from the arch repos. I tried using xlsfonts to get the "name" of the font, but that showed up nothing. Can urxvt use ttf fonts?
Thanks for your help, I'll post anything else anyone needs.
Last edited by maxmackie (2012-05-29 23:41:54)

JackH79 wrote:
This will probably help (it will probably help with your font problems as well). See what it says about using shading and tintColor at the same time.
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Like this:
[code]Some text[/code]
Thanks for the link. I must have skimmed over too quickly last time. I got the font working, awesome how the wiki uses the font I want as an example For the transparency however, no dice. I tried using either only shading or tint, but both of them failed. Just to be 100% certain, I don't need xcompmgr running or anything for this to work right?
Trilby wrote:I'm not sure where dwm comes into play here, but I will give you one of my own grievances: I much prefer "real" transparency because with psuedo-transparency, whenever the layout changes, there seems to be a good bit of lag between to windows changing shape and the pseudo-background being redrawn. It's ugly as hell - so I use true transparency. I'm still working, however, on a dwm patch to "hide other" windows in monocle mode, because as is, a true transparent terminal in monocle mode shows other windows below it ... also ugly as hell.
The only saving grace is that I never really use terminals in monocle mode - thats just for my web browser on occasion.
As for the problem at hand, I second Jack's point. Remove one of those and try again.
I figured I'd mention dwm seeing as they mention transparency issues out of box (ie, none). I thought maybe running dwm required me to have an extra daemon running or something... I do agree that true transparency would be much nicer, but I'm running into big issues with xcompmgr. Running from shell dumps an endless stream of "error 163: BadPicture request 149 minor 8 serial xxxxx" and running it straight from dmenu results in ugly transparency between different tags in dwm (I have a terminal open on tag 1 and firefox open on tag 2, I can see firefox through the terminal on tag 1). Admittedly, I haven't read into anything regarding xcompmgr so these could all be trivial issues.
jasonwryan wrote:Welcome to the boards Max. What took you so long?
Hey Jason. Well, a couple years back I saw your awesome screenshot of dwm and decided to switch from KDE to it. I guess recently I felt like going the whole way and running Arch. I loved getting everything up and running manually (nothing like installing an OS and being given only a simple terminal ). Thanks for the welcome.

Urxvt transparency with NVIDIA

This problem is a little weird, and I think it has to do with an NVIDIA setting in Xorg.
I changes my .Xdefaults to make urxvt transparent:
urxvt*urlLauncher: firefox
urxvt*depth: 32
urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
urxvt*foreground: #1cc600
!urxvt*foreground: #ffffff
!urxvt*background: #000000
URxvt*scrollBar:true
URxvt*scrollBar_right:true
URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:size=8
Now, every time I open a terminal and drag it around, it leaves a trail. Even when I set the background to just black again. The problem is the depth setting. If I take my old .Xdefaults and just add the depth: 32 line, it leaves this trail.
However, it doesn't leave a trail if I first RESIZE the window, then drag it around. In fact, it handles the transparency just fine when I do this.
Here is my Xorg, see if you can help:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util"
EndSection
Section "Module"
#Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
#Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30.0-130.0
VertRefresh 50.0-100.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # 
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # 
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # 
#Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8300 GS"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

It's great to know that at least the community is still hacking away at xcompmgr, even if the devs aren't.
This package certainly solves the problem for me, but I've noticed now that any window with true transparancy* (in my case, urxvt and emesene) doesn't have a drop shadow at all. So, great, the "smearing" has gone, but so has the drop shadow that was causing it.
*Edit: I should say, any window using RBGa, rather than "transparancy".
Last edited by SFisher (2009-01-07 20:53:07)

[Solved] KDE 4.10: The taskbar isn't transparent any more

Hi,
after the upgrade from KDE 4.9 to KDE 4.10 I noticed, that the taskbar isn't transparent any more.
So, up to now I couldn't find the settings to change that, that's why I just want to ask how I can get back the taskbar transparency?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Last edited by maik-hro (2013-02-08 18:08:07)

Same: opengl is broken, even crashes kwin on start up. Only xrender compositing is working now. Even starting a new .kde4 folder hasn't fixed it. I guarantee it's f#@* Catalyst again.
Last edited by 12eason (2013-02-09 19:55:34)

Can't make urxvt transparent under Fluxbox

I've set urxvt's depth to 32 and the color to rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd. This results in a terminal with true transparency under Openbox. However, with Fluxbox, there is no transparency at all, and I can't figure out why.
Xcompmgr is definitely running, I have shadows and fades. I can even get transparency across the whole window with transset-df.
The correct resources for urxvt are set, I can confirm with `xrdb -query`.
No idea what's causing this Any help appreciated.

I've since become annoyed with Fluxbox and have switched to AwesomeWM, sorry
Lack's branch should still compile fine and work with at least urxvt, I never tried a dock or anything.
@Cr0k: That's not the correct way to set true transparency, you've enabled fake transparency. You need something like the following -- and also, you're running xcompmgr, right?
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
@knecht: Ask on their IRC. Lack has a 32-bit visuals branch that works great for at least a transparent terminal.
Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-11-03 23:53:33)

Urxvt - transparency - vim ? - SOLVED-

I'm runnung urxvt with real transparency by putting this in my .Xdefaults:
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background: rgba:2121/2121/2121/aaaa
vim gives me error codes when I try to run it in a transparent terminal:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Vim: Got X error
Vim: Finished
If I run Vim -X I can get it to work, but then I lose the nice X stuff like buffer copying with the middle mouse button.
I've looked around, but can't find anyone having or addressing this problem? Any ideas from urxvt users out there?
Thanks
tdphys
SOLVED
Gah...
I didn't have URxvt at the beginning of the two lines in my .Xdefaults. How embarrasing since i added them for the initial posting. Goes to show, dumb mistakes are only solved after posting to the forum.
Sigh...
Last edited by tdphys (2008-09-04 19:22:44)

Quick update: I was thinking about this - the wiki post can only be mentioning pseudo transparency ("non-standard wallpaper setters"), so it wouldn't apply to this situation (true transparency via compiz). After a little searching, I found this :
It seems the newest version has the copy-background-to-pixmap method overriding true transparency if that is set by the resources. That's the opposite of the way it used to be, but otherwise works. I just had to remove the other background settings, such as .inheritPixmap and .tintColor, and it works again.
So I commented out those resources in my ~/.Xdefaults ... and it works!
So, really solved.

[SOLVED] Transparent URxvt position in Openbox

I've followed the "Urxvt in the background" topic in the ArchWiki Openbox entry. I am unable to get the terminal to appear anywhere but the upper right corner. I have tried various changes to the postion settings in the application section of the rc.xml file with no effect. It also doesn't seem to be on the bottom layer, as other windows can be moved below it. It also doesn't have focus.
My current application section is rc.xml
<application name="urxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>-5</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<layer>below</layer>
<desktop>all</desktop>
</application>
Last edited by 000krf (2009-01-08 22:39:19)

That didn't work either. Here is what I have found, after further experimenting...
Here is my .Xdefaults file
URxvt*transparent:true
URxvt*scrollBar: false
#URxvt*borderLess: true
URxvt*foreground: White
And here is my current rc.xml file
<application name="urxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>-5</x>
<y>5</y>
</position>
<layer>below</layer>
<desktop>1</desktop>
</application>
As shown above, my terminal appears as transparent, on the desktop, and in the upper right-hand corner, but with a black border. If I uncomment the "URxvt*borderLess: true" line the terminal appears in the upper left-hand corner and borderless. It is as though this line causes the position section in the rc.xml file to be ingnored.:(

Urxvt won't get transparent with openbox, rgba and xcompmgr

Hello!
Yesterday I had a nice working openbox setup with real transparency in urxvt using
Urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/bbbb
in ~/.Xdefaults.
Then I did some fiddling around with vga boot options to get a nicer console, and realized the terminals in openbox was not transparent anymore. I thought of it as a framebuffer issue with the nvidia driver, and set everything back to normal again. That did nothing however, the urxvt was still not transparent.
Reinstalled arch this morning for the sake of it, but I still can't get urxvt transparent with xcompmgr. Compositing seems to work with drop shadows and transset, but not when using rgba for urxvt.
Any ideas what I've done wrong?
My Xorg.0.log shows no errors.

Ah, thank you!
I forgot to change it back after I did some troubleshooting...it's all working now!

Urxvt in the background is not transparent

Hello everyone,
I'm using Openbox and urxvt terminal and I was experimenting with running one urxvt pseudo-transparent in the background like in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … background. So I created new name "RootURxvt" in my .Xdefaults file:
RootURxvt.scrollBar: false
RootURxvt.transparent: true
RootURxvt.geometry: 80x24
the rest of my .Xdefaults reagarding urxvt:
URxvt.buffered: true
URxvt.geometry: 85x24
URxvt.transparent: false
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: gray90
URxvt.cursorColor: green
URxvt.underlineColor: yellow
URxvt.scrollstyle: plain
URxvt.secondaryScroll: true
URxvt.font: -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
URxvt.boldFont: -*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
Then I put the appropriate entry to the .config/openbox/rc.xml
<application name="RootURxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<desktop>all</desktop>
<maximized>false</maximized>
<skip_taskbar>true</skip_taskbar>
<layer>below</layer>
</application>
This is the rest of my rc.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
<resistance>
<strength>10</strength>
<screen_edge_strength>20</screen_edge_strength>
</resistance>
<focus>
<focusNew>no</focusNew>

<followMouse>no</followMouse>

<focusLast>yes</focusLast>

<underMouse>no</underMouse>

<focusDelay>200</focusDelay>

<raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>

</focus>
<placement>
<policy>Smart</policy>

<center>yes</center>

<monitor>Active</monitor>

</placement>
<theme>
<name>Carbon</name>
<titleLayout>NLIMC</titleLayout>

<keepBorder>no</keepBorder>
<animateIconify>no</animateIconify>

<name>sans</name>
<size>8</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>8</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>


</theme>
<desktops>

<number>4</number>
<firstdesk>1</firstdesk>
<names>
<name>1</name>
<name>2</name>
<name>3</name>
<name>4</name>
</names>
<popupTime>875</popupTime>

</desktops>
<resize>
<drawContents>yes</drawContents>
<popupShow>Always</popupShow>

<popupPosition>Center</popupPosition>

<popupFixedPosition>

<x>10</x>

<y>10</y>

</popupFixedPosition>
</resize>

<margins>
<top>0</top>
<bottom>0</bottom>
<left>0</left>
<right>0</right>
</margins>
<dock>
<position>TopRight</position>

<floatingX>0</floatingX>
<floatingY>0</floatingY>
<noStrut>yes</noStrut>
<stacking>Above</stacking>

<direction>Vertical</direction>

<autoHide>no</autoHide>
<hideDelay>300</hideDelay>

<showDelay>300</showDelay>

<moveButton>Middle</moveButton>

</dock>
<keyboard>
<chainQuitKey>C-g</chainQuitKey>

<keybind key="C-W-Left">
<action name="DesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Right">
<action name="DesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Up">
<action name="DesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Down">
<action name="DesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Left">
<action name="SendToDesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Right">
<action name="SendToDesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Up">
<action name="SendToDesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Down">
<action name="SendToDesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F1">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>1</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F2">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>2</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F3">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>3</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F4">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>4</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-d">
<action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
</keybind>

<keybind key="W-c">
<action name="Close"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-Escape">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-space">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
<action name="PreviousWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow">
<panels>yes</panels>
<desktop>yes</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="W-u">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>urxvt</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>urxvt</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-o">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>opera</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>opera</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-l">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>lock</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>xscreensaver-command -lock</command>
</action>
</keybind>
</keyboard>
<mouse>
<dragThreshold>8</dragThreshold>

<doubleClickTime>200</doubleClickTime>

<screenEdgeWarpTime>400</screenEdgeWarpTime>

<context name="Frame">
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Click">
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-S-Up" action="Click">
<action name="SendToDesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-S-Down" action="Click">
<action name="SendToDesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Titlebar">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="DoubleClick">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="Shade"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
<action name="Lower"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Top">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>top</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Left">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>left</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Right">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>right</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Bottom">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>bottom</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="BLCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="BRCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="TLCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="TRCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Client">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Icon">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="AllDesktops">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleOmnipresent"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Shade">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleShade"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Iconify">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Iconify"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Maximize">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeHorz"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Close">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Close"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Desktop">
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Root">

<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>root-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="MoveResize">
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
</mouse>
<menu>


<file>menu.xml</file>
<hideDelay>200</hideDelay>

<middle>no</middle>

<submenuShowDelay>100</submenuShowDelay>

<applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons>

<manageDesktops>yes</manageDesktops>

</menu>
<applications>
<application name="RootURxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<desktop>all</desktop>
<maximized>false</maximized>
<skip_taskbar>true</skip_taskbar>
<layer>below</layer>
</application>
</applications>
</openbox_config>
Finally I added this to the .config/openbox/autostart.sh:
urxvt -name RootURxvt &
and hoped that on restart I will have nice pseudo-transparent urxvt on the background...It worked for a while but after another fiddling with rc.xml and .Xdefaults and restarting X it simply stopped working and the "RootURxvt" simply looks like normal urxvt without decor. I browsed the forums, tried "xrdb -merge" and restaring X and looked on the .Xdefaults and rc.xml files million times but I can't find what's wrong.
I could appreciate any help, I'm new to all this X resource stuff, maybe I just made some braindead mistake
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by martbab (2009-10-03 17:09:36)

Well, I didn't consider it, because I thought that for my application (borderless urxvt terminal embedded in background below all other app windows) the pseudo-transparency aka. "Inherit Pixmap" function implemented in urxvt (I hope I got that right ) could be sufficient.
I also thought that creating a new name "RootURxvt" in the class "URxvt" in the .Xdefaults file would allow me to have two types of urxvt terms running (terminal in the root window and normal "opaque" windowed terminals).
the similar thing is in the post #12 of this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45382 but only with geometry settings.

Gnome Shell + Urxvt as a transparent terminal

Hello, I'm currently using Arch64 + Gnome Shell. Time ago I was using Openbox and I had managed to make a transparent terminal using URXVT via this thread -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104868
If I remember correctly I had also managed to succeed in making a transparent terminal in Gnome 2 too. Unfortunately I have run into some problems when making the same in Gnome Shell. As you can see in the screenshot -> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/82 … urxvt.png/ , urxvt produces an ugly shadow and the biggest problem is that I'm not able to type on it.
My .Xdefaults file is the below:
URxvt*transparent:true
URxvt*font:xft:monospace:pixelsize=11
URxvt*scrollBar:false
URxvt*geometry:100x75+400+30
URxvt*borderLess:true
URxvt*foreground:#ffffff
Obvliously I'm missing something. Can you help me?
Thanks in advance.

As far as I know, the problem is caused by MUTTER which doesn't draw shadows correctly.
It will be fixed in the next gnome release.
Try to google: mutter, transparency, gnome.

Does anyone have TRUE transparency with urxvt in fluxbox?

Been using rxvt-unicode for a while and I really like it, and I loved how it looked in Openbox, the transparency worked wonderfully. But now that I've moved to Fluxbox, the transparency doesn't work at all. I've googled and searched a few forums, but everything I've tried fails. my Xdefaults are tweaked nicely, and I can certainly modify the appearance of urxvt, EXCEPT the transparency.
Is this a fluke of Fluxbox? Or am I just missing something?

rson451 wrote:iirc fluxbox has a transparency setting in it's own config, maybe the init file. it's been a while since i've used it but you may wanna start there.
Not quite what I'm looking for, but you're right.. With Fluxbox, you can make entire windows transparent. Which is fine, but I'm nitpicky. What I liked about Urxvt in Openbox, was that The terminal itself was transparent, while the window decoration stayed opaque. Thank you, though.
rine wrote:Don't you need compositing for true transparency? Maybe you missed something?
You most certainly do, and I should have mentioned that I'm running XCompMGR quite smoothly with drop shadows and all, I'm just having a small issue with one app.

Is there a Way to Make the HUD More Transparent

I have been doing a number of Full screen adjustments with the HUD, but I find I am always moving the HUD so that I can see the image section I need to tweek. It would be EXTREMELY nice if I could make the HUD more transparent so that I can see the underlying image better. As the HUD is already partly transparent, I know there must be a preference somewhere to increase the transparency. Since I can not seem to find any mention of this in the manual, and no menu option (that I can find), I assume the only way to make the HUD more transparent, would be edit a plist.
Would anyone know what I need to do to make the HUD more transparent?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Gary
Dual G5 2.5 GHz Dual Core, 2.5 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9) iLife 06, Final Cut Studio

Hi, Ian.
I would hope that application developers would learn from game developers, where HUDs are used ubiquitously.. Very usable and can be even 90% transparent or more.... it is all about contrast. There is a LOT of opaque DARK gray space in the Aperture HUDs, which could easily be much more transparent (even 50% would help). All you would have to do is keep the adjustment controls contrast up. i.e. Apples DVD Player Navigator.
Anyway.... it would be nice.
Thanks again for keeping me company at this early hour.
Gary

Is there a way to make cursors support more than 1-bit alpha transparency?

I made a nice cursor PNG, and then I load it into an ImageIcon, use getImage() to get an Image, then use Toolkit.createCustomCursor to make my cursor, set the cursor, and I get a disappointing ugly mess.
My cursor used a bit of transparency and looked quite nice, but it seems that some class along the way decided to make my translucent pixels opaque.
There isn't a way around this is there? And why do cursor's have to be 32x32 px?? I had to take my 16x16 one and throw it in a larger image......
I suppose I don't really need a custom cursor anyway though..
</rant>

Hi, Ian.
I would hope that application developers would learn from game developers, where HUDs are used ubiquitously.. Very usable and can be even 90% transparent or more.... it is all about contrast. There is a LOT of opaque DARK gray space in the Aperture HUDs, which could easily be much more transparent (even 50% would help). All you would have to do is keep the adjustment controls contrast up. i.e. Apples DVD Player Navigator.
Anyway.... it would be nice.
Thanks again for keeping me company at this early hour.
Gary

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