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vincent7

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Registered: 2014-02-27

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[SOLVED] compton not starting

Hello,

yesterday i installed compton (compton-git from AUR) to get rid of xcompmgr. It seemed to work without a problem, but today - after a reboot - i cannot get it to work.

This is the command i start compton with, it (now) sits in .xprofile :

compton -CGb --glx-no-stencil --backend glx --no-fading-openclose --vsync opengl & 

This is the output:

glx_update_fbconfig(): No FBConfig found for depth 32. Expect crazy things.

I use KDE with openbox + cairo-dock on MacBook Pro 8,1.

Besides, a second problem that could be connected with this: my .config/openbox/autostart does not get processed anymore.
I used it to start xcompmgr and so I first put my compton command in there, but it did not work.
I tried to put something like

(echo `date` > ~/testopenbox)

into it, but it doesnt work either.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
vincent

Last edited by vincent7 (2014-02-27 23:01:03)

vincent7

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Registered: 2014-02-27

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] compton not starting

Ok, i kinda fixed this by accident.

I opened (in kde) System Settings > Qt Graphics

The setting was set "Raster", i tried "OpenGL (experimental)" - logged out and back in - and: it works. compton started again without complain.

Next problem was that due to the "experimental" state of the "OpenGL" Setting some windows did strange things. So I changed the setting back to "raster" -- logged out and in -- and it stil works. So maybe there was just somethings strange going on in the settings?

Let me try a restart and i will report back.

btw.
which composite manager are you using? xcompmgr? xcompmgr-dana? or cairo-compmgr? compiz? or maybe compton?

EDIT 1:

the above did not work!
my by-accident-finding was a coincidence.

here's the truth:

under xcompmgr i had a file /etc/profile.d/flash.sh
it looked like this:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

it was needed because firefox kept crashing (the whole system too) when I was watching flash video.
with this file set (make it chmod +x) the problem was solved under xcompmgr.
I thought it would be a great idea to let it exist there after I moved to compton because compton is just a fork of xcompmgr that mainly has some bugfixes (correct me if i'm wrong).

but the file seems to have caused the trouble.

i erased it and compton works.

but my new problem is now: firefox + flashvideo crashes!

EDIT 2:

firefox + flash video is back.

According to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1258550

i added several commands. it comes down to these two option. both work perfect now!

compton -CGb --backend glx --no-fading-openclose --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc &

OR with --glx-no-stencil

compton -CGb --glx-no-stencil --backend glx --no-fading-openclose --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc &

Thanks for watching this Episode.

Persisting Problem:
openbox wont process autostart file.
will start a new thread...

Last edited by vincent7 (2014-02-27 22:14:44)

Hspasta

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Re: [SOLVED] compton not starting

Please mark this thread [SOLVED] if this problem's resolved.