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wire7ack

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Registered: 2019-05-18

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[SOLVED] Compton switch bug

Hello all. I have i3, compton and when i switch between workspaces for a split second, I see my wallpaper, then the window in the workspace. Has anyone come across this?

Sorry for my bad English, I'm not american (;

SOLVE: Change termite to urxvt

Last edited by wire7ack (2019-05-22 08:01:44)

architector4

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Registered: 2019-05-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Compton switch bug

As far as I know, compton adds window fade-ins/outs by default - so if a window disappears, it instead slowly fades out. So in the middle of the switch workspace action, both your previous workspace's windows and current workspace's windows are half-transparent, resulting in you seeing your background.

You can turn it off by adding this line to its config:

fading = false;

The config would either be at ~/.config/compton/compton.conf, ~/.config/compton.conf or ~/.compton.conf - see Arch Wiki for more details on configuring Compton:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/co … figuration

wire7ack

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Registered: 2019-05-18

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Compton switch bug

As far as I know, compton adds window fade-ins/outs by default - so if a window disappears, it instead slowly fades out. So in the middle of the switch workspace action, both your previous workspace's windows and current workspace's windows are half-transparent, resulting in you seeing your background.

You can turn it off by adding this line to its config:

fading = false;

The config would either be at ~/.config/compton/compton.conf, ~/.config/compton.conf or ~/.compton.conf - see Arch Wiki for more details on configuring Compton:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/co … figuration

Thanks, but I understood what was going on. In termites, I changed to urxvt and there were no problems