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recently i installed arch on a laptop i had lying around, after i had it installed i installed xfce4-terminal and noticed that i couldnt make the background opaque because awesomewm doesnt nativley support compositing. after doing some reading i decided to install compton and unagi and try both of them out. now i need help autostarting either compton or unagi when i boot into awesomewm. again i did some reading and if i am right i think i have to add "compton -b" to the .xinitrc. if i am wrong please point me in the right direction.
Last edited by enzyme (2017-01-19 12:18:13)
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How are you starting Awesome?
If you're using startx then yes, .xinitrc is the correct location. If you use a DM then check the appropriate documentation.
Last edited by Slithery (2017-01-17 10:53:58)
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yeah i am using sddm. let me read that documentation and i will get back to you if i have any questions. thank you!
Last edited by enzyme (2017-01-18 00:06:52)
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alright so i figured it out but before i go on and tell you the solution i must tell you the reason why i wanted compton to autostart on login.
so wehn i w as going through the rc.lua i changed the default terminal from xterm to xfce4-terminal that went alright but when i went into apperances to change to opacity of the terminal emulator it wouldnt let because awesome doesnt nativly support compositing so i went to the aur and installed compton. afterwards i realized i needed compton to autostart in order to make life easier for me. so what i did was i went to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xprofile and read through the documentation i required because i am using SDDM to start awesomewm i went to the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and i added this pice to the top of the script
# Make sure this is before the 'exec' command or it won't be sourced.
[ -f /etc/xprofile ] && source /etc/xprofile
[ -f ~/.xprofile ] && source ~/.xprofile
right after the #!/bin/sh
afterwards i made a file called .xprofile in my home directory and added compton -b to the file and that was it
thanks for the help in pointing me in the right direction!!
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According to that wiki page you don't need to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc if you're using SDDM.
Anyway, if it's fixed please edit your first post and prepend [SOLVED] to the title.
Last edited by Raynman (2017-01-18 11:37:33)
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