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iru

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Registered: 2009-09-15

Posts: 17

Fluxbox + AWN + xcompmgr?

I really didn't think setting up this combination would be such a pain in the ***. I switched to Fluxbox today because I wanted to use avant-window-navigator with xcompmgr and was fooled into believing PekWM wasn't able to deal with the transparency of the dock but Fluxbox was. Seems like Fluxbox isn't either. Or I'm just doing something way wrong, hence this post.

I'm running Arch 64-bit with the 2.6.31 kernel cause both 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 give me trouble elsewhere. Compositing is enabled. Here's my messy xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option        "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    # Enable C-A-Backspace
    Option         "DontZap" "False"

    # Don't use screensaver, turn
    # screens off after 30 minutes
    Option         "BlankTime" "30"
    Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option         "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh  50.0. - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver        "radeon"
    #Driver      "radeonhd"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "RV770 LE [Radeon HD 4800 Series]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
      Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
    Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
      Depth     24
      Modes    "1280x1024"
      Viewport   0 0
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
  Group 0
  Mode 0666
EndSection

Before firing up AWN I start xcompmgr because otherwise AWN tells me the screen isn't composited:

xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55

With all that done I get the wonderful and seemingly infamous black border on the bottom of my screen that just won't disappear no matter what I try.

iru

Member

Registered: 2009-09-15

Posts: 17

Re: Fluxbox + AWN + xcompmgr?

Judging by a German forum post I just found, it seems to be impossible to achieve what I want with Fluxbox. Therefore I just tried Openbox which worked like a charm. Guess I can live with that as well since I haven't gotten used to Fluxbox after using it for just a couple hours anyway. Cheers.