Green border around urxvt in xmonad

Sakurina · 2008-11-19 23:26:48

Heya,

I installed xmonad about a week ago and I set my terminal to urxvt in my xmonad.hs. Every urxvt window I launch, whether it be from Mod-Shift-Enter, dmenu, or another terminal has a green border, completely ignoring the border colors I specified in my configuration. If I set my terminal to xterm, it actually uses the border colors I specified.

I've been having the same problem on Arch in a Parallels VM for about a month and I've yet to see how to fix this, yet I see people in the Artwork/Screenshots board with no such green border on xmonad. How would I go about fixing this problem?

Procyon · 2008-11-19 23:28:03

any border definitions in ~/.Xdefaults?

Sakurina · 2008-11-19 23:33:59

I don't have anything having to do with borders in .Xdefaults.

edit: I should mention that I tried URxvt.borderLess: true but that didn't work.

Last edited by Sakurina (2008-11-19 23:36:38)

ArchGh0ul · 2008-11-20 09:00:59

Sakurina wrote:

I don't have anything having to do with borders in .Xdefaults.
edit: I should mention that I tried URxvt.borderLess: true but that didn't work.

Try to add it then..see if that helps
URxvt.borderColor: <color>
(you could also make it the same color as URxvt.background and the border would have to disapear anyway)

Sakurina · 2008-11-23 03:24:26

ArchGh0ul wrote:

Sakurina wrote:
I don't have anything having to do with borders in .Xdefaults.
edit: I should mention that I tried URxvt.borderLess: true but that didn't work.
Try to add it then..see if that helps
URxvt.borderColor: <color>
(you could also make it the same color as URxvt.background and the border would have to disapear anyway)

Yeah, that doesn't work either. I have a feeling xmonad itself is giving it the green border due to borderLess and borderColor not working. :S

string · 2008-11-23 08:22:45

How about posting your xmonad config and your Xresources/Xdefaults/whatever files?

Sakurina · 2008-11-23 14:55:50

.Xdefaults: http://pastie.org/321893
xmonad.hs: http://pastie.org/321896

Thanks ahead of time.

jbromley · 2009-07-20 08:12:26

Are you using compositing with something like xcompmgr or other compositor built into GNOME or KDE? I've found an odd problem where when I turn use compositing with xcompmgr my urxvt window gets *no* border whatsoever. Killing xcompmgr fixes the problem. Perhaps there's some odd drawing bug in XMonad when compositing is used?

Anyway, let us know if you are using compositing and if turning it off has any effect.

Allamgir · 2009-07-21 15:37:54

I think this is a bug in xmonad. I kept getting weird border colors with urxvt, xterm, Xfce Terminal. I became so fed up I just switched to dwm

mastergreg · 2011-02-17 15:38:09

Man that's an old thread!
Well just to have things complete, having the same problem myself i realized that the color depth in the xdefaults was causing all the trouble.
Just comment it out and it's all good.

Inxsible · 2011-02-17 16:33:01

Thanks for an additional solution, but the as you noticed the thread is old and the OP is probably no longer looking for the solution. Oh and welcome to the forums !

Closing for necro-bumping. Please read Forum Rule 10

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Green border around urxvt in xmonad

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