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tdphys

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From: Lower Mainland

Registered: 2005-06-14

Posts: 50

urxvt - transparency - vim ? - SOLVED-

I'm runnung urxvt with real transparency by putting this in my .Xdefaults:

URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background:        rgba:2121/2121/2121/aaaa

vim gives me error codes when I try to run it in a transparent terminal:

BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Vim: Got X error
Vim: Finished

If I run Vim -X  I can get it to work,  but then I lose the nice X stuff like buffer copying with the middle mouse button.

I've looked around, but can't find anyone having or addressing this problem?  Any ideas from urxvt users out there?

Thanks
tdphys

SOLVED
Gah...

I didn't have URxvt at the beginning of the two lines in my .Xdefaults.   How embarrasing since i added them for the initial posting.  Goes to show,  dumb mistakes are only solved after posting to the forum.

Sigh...

Last edited by tdphys (2008-09-04 19:22:44)