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jwm-art

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Registered: 2011-02-01

Posts: 87

[solved](probably)Invisible TWM menus with Compton

Hi,

I'm lately experimenting with the ancient TWM and thought it might be nice with Compton for transparency/shadows etc, while normal windows are fine, all of TWM's menus are actually invisible - items can still be launched via them.

I have tried various --glx-* options in Compton (without really understanding them) and --no-fading-openclose, etc, all to no-avail.

So far search results containing TWM and Compton are using TWM to refer to Tiling Window Managers.

Also, opaque window moving stops working while running Compton.

Does TWM not play nicely enough with compositing? Was wondering if it might not set a freedesktop.org hint resulting or perhaps its behaviour is just not right.

Anyone else tried twm and compton?

Last edited by jwm-art (2014-06-09 10:11:58)

jwm-art

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Registered: 2011-02-01

Posts: 87

Re: [solved](probably)Invisible TWM menus with Compton

Hold up, appologies. Just recalled the note on the Arch Wiki TWM page about a patched version. (Note to self: edit link on page to point to something more useful).