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gone404

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Registered: 2010-06-22

Posts: 8

trayer not fully transparent (bluish tint) with --alpha 255

Anyone know how to get true/full transparency with trayer?

I find that trayer handles icons much better than stalonetray. Stalonetray doesn't work correctly for me (incorrectly sized icons).

The one thing that stalonetray does handle correctly is transparency.

trayer settings:

trayer --edge right --transparent 1 --widthtype request --align right --alpha 255 --tint 0x000000

I get a bluish color with full alpha and transparency.

I am using xcompmgr.

The only way I've found to get things to look decent is --alpha 128 --tint 0x000000

You can see that it's not truly transparent and has a black border around the tray and each icon.

gone404

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Registered: 2010-06-22

Posts: 8

Re: trayer not fully transparent (bluish tint) with --alpha 255

Looks like trayer is using a different part of the screen as the background pixmap for transparency effect. If I run

trayer --edge bottom --widthtype request --align left --transparent 1 --alpha 255 --tint 0x000000

The transparency effect looks correct:

The only problem now is that if new items are added to the tray the pseudo transparency glitches and you can see the shift:

I guess I'm going to have to look at the code and see if it's something I can fix.