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SimbaClaws

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Registered: 2014-02-05

Posts: 16

tilda in awesome always on top

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get a good working terminal in awesome that looks transparent and doesn't conflict with workspaces in such a way that it's always on top.
Currently I'm using tilda which seems to work fine untill the point of switching workspaces and being on top of everything.
Is there any way to change this?

I already tried installing gnome-terminal to be my terminal for awesome but for some reason I can't get it to be transparent. I've tried using devilspie2 to make it transparent but couldn't get it to work.
I've installed the AUR version of gnome terminal with transparency but that also wouldn't work.

Could someone point me into the right direction, either by telling me how to make tilda respond correctly to awesome or by telling me how to get my gnome-terminal to be transparent?

EDIT: I'm at the point of thinking about using a different window manager and or desktop environment. If I can't get this to work I'll probably go with openbox.

Last edited by SimbaClaws (2015-01-27 20:29:51)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: tilda in awesome always on top

Maybe you need a composite manager to have transparency. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rx … ansparency https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Composite

Maybe you could use urxvt instead. And maybe you could use http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Drop-down_terminal, if you find a solution working with awesome 3.5.

SimbaClaws

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Registered: 2014-02-05

Posts: 16

Re: tilda in awesome always on top

Thank you I totally forgot about composite. This solved my transparency issue with gnome-terminal.

emjayc

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Registered: 2014-12-27

Posts: 4

Re: tilda in awesome always on top

For Tilda click on Preferences and untick Always on Top.