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rudevdr

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Registered: 2017-05-05

Posts: 5

Switching workspace shows wallpaper in i3

The issue is whenever I switch between my workspaces, my wallapaper shows up.

Here is a 10s video showing how wallpaper is popping up every time workspace is switched (video is not mine).

To me its very annoying and after spending so many hours on ricing my wm this issue throws away everything.

So this made me wander "Is this bug or a feature?" because I haven't found any issue other than in github here where issue is still open but no activity since 1 year.

I tried flipping everything in compton config but nothing worked for me. Still here is my compton config:

# video
backend = "glx";
vsync = "none";
unredir-if-possible = true;
glx-no-stencil = true;
glx-no-rebind-pixmap = true;
glx-swap-method = "3";
dbe = true;
paint-on-overlay = true;
#glx-use-copysubbuffermesa = true;

blur-background = true;

# # other
mark-wmwin-focused = true;
mark-ovredir-focused = true;
use-ewmh-active-win = true;
detect-rounded-corners = true;
detect-client-opacity = true;
refresh-rate = 0;
detect-client-leader = true;
detect-transient = true;
wintypes:
{
    tooltip =
    {
        fade = true;
        shadow = false;
        opacity = 0.85;
        focus = true;
    };
};

# shadow
#shadow = true;
#no-dnd-shadow = true;
#no-dock-shadow = true;
#clear-shadow = true;
#shadow-radius = 1;
#shadow-offset-x = 0;
#shadow-offset-y = 0;
#shadow-opacity = 1;
#shadow-red = 0.00;
#shadow-green = 0.00;
#shadow-blue = 0.00;
#shadow-exclude = [ ];

# fading
 fading = true;
 fade-delta = 4;
 fade-in-step = 0.03;
 fade-out-step = 0.03;
 fade-exclude = [ ];

# dimming
#inactive-dim = 0.2;
#focus-exclude = [
#"class_g = 'gl'",
#"class_g = 'mpv'",
#"class_g = 'Mpv'",
#"class_g = 'chromium'",
#"class_g = 'Chromium'",
#"class_g = 'Virt-manager'",
#"class_g = 'virt-manager'"
#];

# opacity
menu-opacity = 1;
inactive-opacity = 1;
active-opacity = 1;
frame-opacity = 1;
inactive-opacity-override = false;
alpha-step = 0.06;

opacity-rule = [ 
"75:class_g = 'i3bar'",
"95:class_g = 'pcmanfm'",
"95:class_g = 'Pcmanfm'",
"95:class_g = 'urxvt'",
"95:class_g = 'URxvt'"
];

also I have tried this

compton -cbCGfF -o 0.38 -O 200 -I 200 -t 0 -l 0 -r 3 -D2 -m 0.88 --no-fading-openclose

If you are using a tiling WM especially i3, did you ever encouter this bug? If yes how did you fix it?