[SOLVED] cant get Xcompmgr to work how i want

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-05 22:32:47

hi

I have just followed the wiki on here to install and use Xcompmgr, I then went to the fluxbox wiki for Xcompmgr to see if i could get it to work properly. no luck!

Xcompmgr works fine, but i cant control how it works! when I run xcompmgr -c in terminal, it all kicks in fine, but everything goes to 50% transparency!! ideally, I want it to start with no transparency, then use transset to set individual apps transparency!

thanks

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2008-12-16 20:42:49)

lunch_box · 2008-11-06 15:49:05

Hey,
If flux works similarly to openbox, if you put "xcompmgr &" into you autostart file (~/.fluxbox/startup I believe), this should start xcompmgr without affecting anything initially. Once your logged in, now with xcompmgr running, you can launch apps with transset.

I've only had a brief mess around with transset and only use transparency for terminal, so apologies if this doesn't work / isn't what you're looking for.

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-06 17:27:02

cheers for the idea, I will give it a go in a bit

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-07 19:37:28

unfortunately, it didn't work!

as soon the system boots, everything is 50 % transparent!

i tried uninstalling transset, then just running xcompmgr, but still the same! how can i run xcompmgr with no transparency at all, but some shadows around the windows??

chris_ak · 2008-11-08 08:35:24

You have to set the options on the same line you launch it.
For example, here's the line that starts xcompmgr in my .xinitrc:

exec xcompmgr -cC -t-3 -l-5 -r5 -I0.02 -O0.03 -D4 -fF &

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-08 08:57:04

Thanks, does that give any transparency? i will try it later today.

I assumed that just either running;
xcompmgr
or
xcompmgr -c

would run it without transparency?

ninjaprawn · 2008-12-16 20:41:11

ive solved it. if like me, you run fluxbox without the psuedo-transparency on, xcompmgr wont work! you have to enable psuedo-transparency!

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[SOLVED] cant get Xcompmgr to work how i want

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