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SirCmpwn

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Registered: 2013-09-18

Posts: 89

Semitransparent windows with compton have some artifacts

I'm running compton 0.1_beta2-4 (issue also occurs with all other compositors I've tried) plus i3-wm 4.8-3, and rxvt-unicode 9.20-3 in a semitransparent window. My background is set with feh 2.12-1. Whenever a terminal occludes the background, I see something like this:

I'm making the terminal transparent with this in my Xresources:

URxvt.background: [80]#000000

I also tried using compton-trans to change the opacity with the same result.

Any thoughts on what could cause this or how I might fix it?

halocaridina

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Registered: 2014-07-21

Posts: 77

Re: Semitransparent windows with compton have some artifacts

SirCmpwn,

What you are seeing likely stems from #3 under the Compton FAQ:

https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/faq

halocaridina

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SirCmpwn

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Registered: 2013-09-18

Posts: 89

Re: Semitransparent windows with compton have some artifacts

SirCmpwn,

What you are seeing likely stems from #3 under the Compton FAQ:

https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/faq

halocaridina

That must be it. Thanks.