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LordAnarchist

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Registered: 2018-06-06

Posts: 14

[i3] issue with compton opacity

Hello guys,
How are you?

It's been a while since my last post here, everything was ok. Right now, when doing my new rice on i3 I got to deal with compton.
I thought it would be a good idea to make some programs a bit transparent like URxvt, Polybar and Zathura.

So I wrote a pretty basic config file to just test if opacity rules were alright:

# Shadow
shadow = true;
no-dnd-shadow = true;
no-dock-shadow = false;
clear-shadow = true;
shadow-radius = 7;
shadow-offset-x = -7;
shadow-offset-y = -7;
shadow-opacity = 0.8;
shadow-red = 0.0;
shadow-green = 0.0;
shadow-blue = 0.0;

# opacity
opacity-rule = [
        "90:class_g= 'Polybar'",
        "90:class_g= 'Zathura'",
        "90:class_g= 'Pcmanfm'"
        ];

So, this should work right? At first, when I run compton it works but when I refresh i3 nothing more works and opacity for the programs above get set to 1 automatically.
This is my i3 config (pretty simple but it's because i'm starting the new rice so i'm at the start)

bindsym $mod+Return exec i3-sensible-terminal

bindsym $mod+Shift+q kill

bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run

# >> variables
set $exec     exec --no-startup-id
set $always   exec_always exec

bindsym $mod+Left focus left
bindsym $mod+Down focus down
bindsym $mod+Up focus up
bindsym $mod+Right focus right

bindsym $mod+Shift+Left move left
bindsym $mod+Shift+Down move down
bindsym $mod+Shift+Up move up
bindsym $mod+Shift+Right move right

# enter fullscreen mode for the focused container
bindsym $mod+f fullscreen toggle

# change container layout (tabbed, toggle split)
bindsym $mod+w layout tabbed
bindsym $mod+e layout toggle split

# toggle tiling / floating
bindsym $mod+Shift+space floating toggle

# change focus between tiling / floating windows
bindsym $mod+space focus mode_toggle

set $ws1 "code"
set $ws2 "web"
set $ws3 "books"
set $ws4 "chill"
set $ws5 "chat"

# switch to workspace
bindsym $mod+1 workspace $ws1
bindsym $mod+2 workspace $ws2
bindsym $mod+3 workspace $ws3
bindsym $mod+4 workspace $ws4
bindsym $mod+5 workspace $ws5

# move focused container to workspace
bindsym $mod+Shift+1 move container to workspace $ws1
bindsym $mod+Shift+2 move container to workspace $ws2
bindsym $mod+Shift+3 move container to workspace $ws3
bindsym $mod+Shift+4 move container to workspace $ws4
bindsym $mod+Shift+5 move container to workspace $ws5

bindsym $mod+Shift+c reload
bindsym $mod+Shift+r restart
bindsym $mod+Shift+e exec "i3-nagbar -t warning -m 'You pressed the exit shortcut. Do you really want to exit i3? This will end your X session.' -b 'Yes, exit i3' 'i3-msg exit'"

mode "resize" {
        bindsym Left resize shrink width 10 px or 10 ppt
        bindsym Down resize grow height 10 px or 10 ppt
        bindsym Up resize shrink height 10 px or 10 ppt
        bindsym Right resize grow width 10 px or 10 ppt

        bindsym Escape mode "default"
        }

bindsym $mod+r mode "resize"

# >> window rules and gaps
for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 0

gaps outer 5
gaps inner 10

# >> commands to always execute
$always  polybarlaunch
$always  setxkbmap fr
$always  xrdb ~/.Xresources

and this is my .xinitrc in case you would see it:

sysresources=/home/hustler/.Xresources

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

feh --bg-scale /home/hustler/Pictures/1.jpg

compton --daemon -b --config /home/hustler/.config/compton/compton.conf

exec i3

I'm a bit lost at the moment so if anybody have a solution it would be good to know

Have a nice day guys

Arznnn

Member

Registered: 2018-12-22

Posts: 3

Re: [i3] issue with compton opacity

did you solved it?