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sergrusso

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Registered: 2016-03-03

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konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

I can't get any transparency in my Plasma 5 DE using Kwin.  I can get transparency when I use the Compiz with Plasma 5 and Compiz would be ok but it leaves images of the closed windows on my desktop.

4.4.3-1-ARCH
plasma-desktop 5.5.5-1
kwin 5.5.5-1
compiz 0.9.12.2-10
nvidia-304xx 304.131-7

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Last edited by sergrusso (2016-03-06 01:39:20)

Rog131

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Registered: 2015-08-23

Posts: 90

Re: konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

With:

$ inxi -S -G
System:    Host: archfox Kernel: 4.4.3-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.5.5
           Distro: Arch Linux
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Barts PRO [Radeon HD 6850]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.1)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.2

Konsole > Edit Current Profile > Appearance > Edit > Background transparency

Restarting the Konsole

=> There is a transparent Konsole: http://i.imgur.com/wMTKOPg.png

What is your rendering backend ?
KDE System Settings > Display and Monitor >  Compositor

Are the  /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the systemd journal clean ?

When you try to set the Konsole transparency  - any warnings/errors at the .xsession-errors ?

sergrusso

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Registered: 2016-03-03

Posts: 4

Re: konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

$ inxi -S -G
System:    Host: Arch-Linux Kernel: 4.4.3-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.5.5 Distro: Arch Linux
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G71 [GeForce 7950 GT]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.1 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1680x1050@59.95hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce 7950 GT/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.131

rendering backend: OpenGL 3.1 ( I also have tried OpenGL 2.0 )
opengl interface: GLX

I can set a background image in konsole and control the tint with the transparency slider.
Does this mean that transparency works and there is someting else wrong?

Edit: If I set the renderer to Xrender I get transparency.

Last edited by sergrusso (2016-03-05 17:01:21)

Rog131

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Registered: 2015-08-23

Posts: 90

Re: konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

When looking back - ' konsole transparency not working' : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1557907
But the transparency started to work with the new konsole window: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1558020

I would try with a new user: 'General Troubleshooting - Examine if the problem is local': https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=38828

If the transparency is working with the new user default settings I would compare the KWin supportInformation of the new and old user.

The KWin supportInformation - Arch Wiki KDE Troubleshooting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KD … leshooting

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

sergrusso

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Registered: 2016-03-03

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Re: konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

It seems to be a system wide problem.

I'm going to try the open source video drivers and see what happens.

Last edited by sergrusso (2016-03-06 00:32:35)

sergrusso

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Registered: 2016-03-03

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Re: konsole no transparency in plasma 5 with kwin window manager

I solved my problem by using the mesa-libgl pkg instead of Nvidia's nvidia-304xx-libgl pkg.

I don't think I'm suppose to use mesa-lbgl with the nvidia proprietary driver but it fixed my problem.

edit: as a result of using the mesa-lbgl pkg I lost opengl support and it defaulted to xrender.
         with the open source nvidia drivers I get the same issues,  no transparency.

Thanks alot for your help, I really appreciate it.

Last edited by sergrusso (2016-03-06 01:44:25)