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Xappe

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 105

urxvt won't get transparent with openbox, rgba and xcompmgr

Hello!

Yesterday I had a nice working openbox setup with real transparency in urxvt using

Urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/bbbb

in ~/.Xdefaults.

Then I did some fiddling around with vga boot options to get a nicer console, and realized the terminals in openbox was not transparent anymore. I thought of it as a framebuffer issue with the nvidia driver, and set everything back to normal again. That did nothing however, the urxvt was still not transparent.

Reinstalled arch this morning for the sake of it, but I still can't get urxvt transparent with xcompmgr. Compositing seems to work with drop shadows and transset, but not when using rgba for urxvt.

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

My Xorg.0.log shows no errors.

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amokkk

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From: PL

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 51

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Re: urxvt won't get transparent with openbox, rgba and xcompmgr

make sure that U have Urxvt*depth:32 in Ur ~/.Xdefaults

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Xappe

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 105

Re: urxvt won't get transparent with openbox, rgba and xcompmgr

Ah, thank you!

I forgot to change it back after I did some troubleshooting...it's all working now!

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