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I am using urxvt (community/rxvt-unicode 9.15-3) in Awesome and it's working great, but I would really like to get the "pseudo" transparency working. For the last two hours I've been searching the net for information on this topic, and I have found plenty, but still my terminal window stays non transparent. I have narrowed it down so that I only have the transparency info in my .Xresources file (I've tried with .Xdefaults aswell).
.Xresources:
URxvt*transparent: true
URxvt*shading: 50
.xinitrc:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
DEFAULT_SESSION=awesome
case $1 in
awesome|wmii|xmonad) exec $1 ;;
*) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;;
esac
if i type the command xrdb -query -all it returns:
URxvt*transparent: true
URxvt*shading: 50
All the other stuff I add to .Xresources such as colors and font changes gets loaded, but not the transparency bit.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by mindglowba7fb830d2cbbed73 (2012-06-12 13:10:04)
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rxvt != urxvt ( rxvt-unicode )
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rxvt != urxvt ( rxvt-unicode )
I know but I am using rxvt-unicode.
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Try
xrdb /home/user/.Xresources
(use your user name for "user" of course)
And if that doesn't work, try a different window manager (just to rule out Awesome as the problem).
I can tell you that your code works in ratpoison...
(and I'm using version urxvt version 9.15 and nitrogen)
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-06-11 23:23:48)
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I had to run xcompmgr to get it working with transparency. Here's the relevant part of my .xinitrc:
exec xcompmgr -c &
...
exec awesome
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You only need xcompmgr if you want true transparency. OP's talking about native transparency.
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Ok, my mistake sorry
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According to the Arch Wiki rxvt-unicode page:
.Xresources should be
URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.shading: 100
and .xinitrc should be
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
That works for transparency for me in openbox.
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According to the Arch Wiki rxvt-unicode page:
.Xresources should be
URxvt.transparent: true URxvt.shading: 100
and .xinitrc should be
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
That works for transparency for me in openbox.
Interesting. Either way works for me in dwm, and so does
urxvt*transparent: true
urxvt*shading: 20
And it works without merge on the xrdb call.
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Have you seen this?
No i had missed that! I installed hsetroot and set the wallpaper with that instead of awsetbg that i used before - and now it works! The strange thing is that since I used hsetroot to set the wallpaper one time, I can now use awsetbg again and the transparency still works. Can someone explain that?
Thanks for the link by the way!
Last edited by mindglowba7fb830d2cbbed73 (2012-06-12 13:10:40)
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