wierd compositing issue

Abelian · 2008-05-04 17:34:26

Think the picture shows it all.

The transparency works perfectly with urxvt, but it isn't in gnome-terminal. Any ideas? This is using xcompmgr in openbox.
Cheers

tigrmesh · 2008-05-05 01:32:22

Am I missing something? They both look transparent to me. If you're talking about that funny white area with the red line on the right-hand terminal, maybe you should try googling for some combination of
gnome-terminal transparency xcompmgr

and see what you find.

Edit: by the way, welcome to Arch!

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Abelian · 2008-05-05 07:13:28

Haha the white area with the red line is what the scroll bar looks like in my gtk theme...

I was trying to say that how come the compositing works with urxvt (aka I get real transparency) yet it doesn't with. gnome terminal (I get the desktop background). I can make gnome terminal transparent by going "transset 0.8", I was just wondering why it doesn't work in the first place.

EDIT:
Here is another screenshot that show what I mean a bit better:

There is the urxvt terminal showing the firefox window, the gnome-terminal window having used "transset 0.8" on it and gnome-terminal.

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cubekid · 2008-05-05 11:57:16

So you may want to check in the gnome-terminal preferences whether it's usingpseudo-transparency or true transparency (or something like that).

More info on pseudo transparency, in case you're not familiar with the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-transparency

Hope that helps, dunno if that's what's the problem.

And by the way, that gtk-theme is really nice, one of the best looking ones IMHO

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Abelian · 2008-05-05 15:18:24

Just logged onto gnome and I got real transparency with the metacity compositor. So there's obviously something wierd going on with xcompmgr somewhere.

dunc · 2008-05-05 16:59:07

Abelian wrote:

Just logged onto gnome and I got real transparency with the metacity compositor. So there's obviously something wierd going on with xcompmgr somewhere.

Yes, I don't know whether it's a bug in xcompmgr or vte, but they don't seem to get along together. ROXTerm, Xfce Terminal and Sakura (all based on vte, like Gnome Terminal) only use pseudo-transparency under xcompmgr, too. In fact, Xfce Terminal doesn't even have shadows here. They work fine with Xfce's built-in composite manager and Compiz.

cubekid · 2008-05-05 18:28:44

Oh, well that's interesting to hear. Guess you learn something everyday.

Abelian · 2008-05-05 21:38:24

Ah. Worth filing a bug report for, or is it a known issue?

dunc · 2008-05-06 18:42:46

Well, as I said, the trouble is I don't know where the bug lies: xcompmgr, vte, or the individual terminals themselves (it seems odd that it's only Xfce-Terminal that has the shadow issue). And as I understand it, xcompmgr is only intended as a proof-of-concept, so I'm not sure if there's any point in filing a report there anyway.

(Actually, all this is just a roundabout excuse for my utter uselessness at filing bug reports. )

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Abelian · 2008-05-17 11:32:21

This appears to be fixed using xcompmgr-git (available in the aur)

cubekid · 2008-05-18 03:03:56

sweet, thanks for the update!

andrek · 2008-08-25 19:25:11

And here's what I get using xcompmgr-git and xfce's terminal -

however, xcompmgr doesn't act weird with urxvt. Any ideas?

fwojciec · 2008-08-25 19:32:38

andrek wrote:

And here's what I get using xcompmgr-git and xfce's terminal -
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2152 … wb0.th.png
however, xcompmgr doesn't act weird with urxvt. Any ideas?

What's wrong with it?

EDIT: Oh, I see. I thought the wallpaper was like that
No idea -- xcompmgr is just a hack at best and doesn't work well with a whole lot of things. The most recent version, at least in my experience, introduced more problems than it fixed.

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xen · 2008-10-08 16:56:05

I'm also experiencing this problem, its a shame!

sDoky · 2010-02-16 23:25:25

andrek wrote:

And here's what I get using xcompmgr-git and xfce's terminal -
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2152 … wb0.th.png
however, xcompmgr doesn't act weird with urxvt. Any ideas?

I am experiencing exactly the same thing here

I don't have any clue what could that be. I am using most recent version of xcompmgr-git and I cannot use shadow because of this annoying thing.

PS: what skin do you have on that bmpanel? or is it bmpanel? it is beautiful

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bernarcher · 2010-02-17 00:01:11

You may want tor try xcompmgr-dana instead (also in the AUR). It is a patched version which solves some of these issues.

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