Arch Linux

Cézar

Member

Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] Invisible window in dwm

Hi.

If I

1. run dwm as window manager,

2. run xcompmgr with the "-f" parameter,

3. launch a PCManFM window through dmenu,

this window is invisible. If I keep this invisible window open, and launch more PCManFM windows, they are visible and normal.

• I never had this issue in Openbox.

• It doesn't happen if I don't pass the "-f" parameter to xcompmgr.

• So far, It didn't happen with any application that I use other than PCManFM.

So, if this is a bug, I don't know to which of the three to report.

If it's not a bug, can anyone tell me a way to solve this issue, while keeping the parameter "-f"? I like it and have been using it in Openbox.

Last edited by Cézar (2014-07-24 22:14:49)

---

systemd is ugly. Beauty lies in symplicity.

defer

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2013-06-25

Posts: 46

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Invisible window in dwm

Maybe you should try compton instead of xcompmgr? xcompmgr havent been updated since 2004.

---

https://github.com/defer-

Cézar

Member

Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Invisible window in dwm

Thank you. Being a fork of xcompmgr, compton has the same parameters I used with xcompmgr, but this time the issue just didn't happen.

There must be reasons I'm not aware of why compton isn't in the official repositories instead of xcompmgr.

---

systemd is ugly. Beauty lies in symplicity.