Plank preserves a black background with compton under awesome wm

sixshotx · 2016-02-04 17:58:11

Hi,

I want to use plank dock in awesome wm, and have encountered a black background problem. Here are some of the system configuration.

awesome wm 3.5.8-1
compton-git 0.1_beta2.82
plank 0.10.1-2
plank-config 1.3.1-1
gtk+ 3.18.7
cairo 1.14.6

The X11 video driver is xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+519 and graphic uses Intel Celeron CPU J1900.

It seems that compton works well with other applications (i.e. xterm, conky) to support the transparency, but got no luck with plank and other docks such as awn and cairo-dock. There will always be a black background as shown below. Please give me some suggestions/hints to debug and solve the problem. Thanks.

ugjka · 2016-02-04 20:00:10

Try running compton with these options

compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-mswc

sixshotx · 2016-02-05 04:26:46

Hi ugjka,

Thanks for your advice. I reinstalled the driver to support glx and the new dock looks great as shown. One tiny problem is that the edge of the original black background can still be observed (pointed by the red arrows), and I wonder whether it can also be removed by compton.

sixshotx · 2016-02-05 04:52:56

One thought about the edge might be related to the gtk configuration. I also have such edge for kupfer at the corner (as shown by the black arrows).

ugjka · 2016-02-05 10:17:41

Hmm... I'm out of ideas

How about you try this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compton/ instead of git version?

Last edited by ugjka (2016-02-05 10:19:58)

sixshotx · 2016-02-08 04:37:02

I got same problem with the non-git version though...

reaper · 2016-02-16 11:40:41

Hi,

have same problem with "xcompmgr -c" and openbox .. if I restart plank, then it dissapier.. also Intel graphic card

http://imgur.com/kgyPJbm

sixshotx · 2016-02-16 20:36:17

Can you try "--backend glx" for xcompmgr?

reaper · 2016-02-16 21:08:29

Then composite doesnt work at all.. but I also didnt find --backened option in man for xcompmgr

WorMzy · 2016-02-16 22:00:06

EDIT: I somehow posted in the wrong topic..

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-02-16 22:11:21)

sixshotx · 2016-02-17 22:44:28

reaper,

I partially solved the problem by changing from default backend xrender to glx. If you have problem with it, please check:

the graphic driver is installed correctly with opengl enabled.
XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS is not set. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177789

dftst · 2016-04-26 14:03:23

Is plank listed under the shadow-exlude bit in your compton.conf file? It could be that compton is trying to draw shadows for plank, which I haven't been able to get to work properly so I ended up just disabling shadows for it.

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Plank preserves a black background with compton under awesome wm

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