[SOLVED] Picom shadows don't work with awesomewm

Freakzz · 2021-08-27 13:45:06

I tried enabling shadows on awesomewm just now using picom. I set the value of shadow to true and restarted awesome. Nothing. I tinkered with the radius, color, blur and position. Restarted again. Still nothing. Am I missing something?

Last edited by Freakzz (2021-09-03 19:18:51)

seth · 2021-08-27 14:18:58

I set the value of shadow to true and restarted awesome. Nothing. I tinkered with the radius

What config do you edit and why do you restart awesomewm?
Shadows are done in the compositor, that's picom. That's what you have to configure and launch.
Picom doesn't respond very well to syntax errors in the config, so best try starting it in an interactive shell to whether it does start or yell an error at you.

Freakzz · 2021-08-27 14:43:48

What config do you edit and why do you restart awesomewm?

I edited /.config/picom.conf. I restarted awesomewm because I set picom to autostart whenever awesome boots up. I even tried killall picom and then executed the command picom in another terminal to see if it would work, but nothing did. Screenshot

seth · 2021-08-27 14:48:06

Looks working, though (at least transparency)?
Your ~/.config/picom.conf ?

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 12:57:11

Looks working, though (at least transparency)?
Your ~/.config/picom.conf ?

So it seems it really is working. I confirmed this by hovering my mouse pointer over the battery widget which displays a little box with the battery percentage, and it turned out it had a shadow behind it. But that's not what I'm trying to achieve here. The shadow doesn't work on any window(browser, terminal etc.) except for whenever I hover over the widgets. Here is my config btw.

seth · 2021-08-28 13:17:30

Where do you expect to see them? (The scrot only shows a window content)
Do you have a "beautiful.useless_gap" in your awesome config?

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:06:15

Yes I do. I expect to see them on all windows/apps.

seth · 2021-08-28 14:13:48

Did you try to set the shadow really opaque and really … green?
Something you'd notice, eg.

shadow-radius = 1
shadow-opacity = 1
shadow-red = 0
shadow-green = 1
shadow-blue = 0

And maybe post a usable screenshot - right now this coud be a misreading of the status quo - eg. I use a very soft shadow r32/o.33 and that's barely notable over a noisy-ish wallpaper)

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:24:53

As I said earlier, I was expecting shadows to appear behind normal windows too like browser, terminal etc. but I only get them on widget "boxes" or notifications.

seth · 2021-08-28 14:30:43

Are you rounding the window corners in picom or in awesome? (Or is it the client?)

xprop
xwininfo -all

(click the window)

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:33:37

seth wrote:

Are you rounding the window corners in picom or in awesome? (Or is it the client?)
xprop
xwininfo -all
(click the window)

The rounding happens inside the rc.lua file. Do you want the output of these two commands you told me to execute?

seth · 2021-08-28 14:35:05

Yup. I assume the window is shaped and thus ignored by picom (though the config says otherwise)
Try to skip the rounding and see what happens.

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:40:04

seth wrote:

Yup. I assume the window is shaped and thus ignored by picom (though the config says otherwise)

output of both commands.

Try to skip the rounding and see what happens.

I commented out the code in which rounding takes place in rc.lua. Is this what you meant by skip the rounding?

seth · 2021-08-28 14:45:58

Yes, but the alacritty window is not shaped (is this before or afer the lua update?)

Edit you could also try to empty

shadow-exclude = []

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Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:46:57

seth wrote:

Yes, but the alacritty window is not shaped (is this before or afer the lua update?)

I believe its before.

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Freakzz · 2021-08-28 14:53:31

seth wrote:

Edit you could also try to empty
shadow-exclude = []

done. Still nothing new.

seth · 2021-08-28 15:05:16

Last idea is if awesome ends up putting all the windows into a desktop sized container,

xwininfo -children

This will tell you the windows parent Id which you can then query

xwininfo -id 0xabcdef

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 15:09:05

seth wrote:

Last idea is if awesome ends up putting all the windows into a desktop sized container,
xwininfo -children
This will tell you the windows parent Id which you can then query
xwininfo -id 0xabcdef

output(alacritty)

note that i still have rounding commented out in rc.lua

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seth · 2021-08-28 15:41:20

Nope. Reparented but same size.
What mode is this and do you get shadows fro floating windows?

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 15:47:47

What mode is this

what do you mean by that?

and do you get shadows fro floating windows

I don't use floating as I have commented it out and only use tiling. The only things that have shadows are the ones I showed u above and this(just discovered)

seth · 2021-08-28 15:56:17

I don't use floating as I have commented it out

I'd suggest to test it nevertheless…

what do you mean by that?

awesome has a nice little icon in the top right corner that allows you to toggle the window management mode (the answer is "some tiling" and not eg. fullscreen or so)

Freakzz · 2021-08-28 16:30:14

seth wrote:

I don't use floating as I have commented it out
I'd suggest to test it nevertheless…
what do you mean by that?
awesome has a nice little icon in the top right corner that allows you to toggle the window management mode (the answer is "some tiling" and not eg. fullscreen or so)

gonna have to take that from /xdg/ path as i deleted it lol. Give me a moment ill edit this message

Freakzz · 2021-08-29 16:35:49

Freakzz wrote:

gonna have to take that from /xdg/ path as i deleted it lol. Give me a moment ill edit this message

looks like I tool a little longer than just a moment lol. I didn't do what you told me to try, instead I thought of trying out ibhagwan's fork which supports rounded corners. What do you think?

seth · 2021-08-29 21:17:32

If you removed the rounded corners in awesome but the issue remained, that's probably not gonna help.
You should be able to float individual windows anytime, though?

Freakzz · 2021-09-03 13:43:53

Hey, sorry for the long delay, had some stuff to deal with. So long story short, switching to forked picom didn't do much, just as you said. As for the floating clients, I was able to re-enable floating mode and I re-disabled all rounding from rc.lua. The change wasn't big, but there definitely is one. So now, the right-click menu has a shadow. As for everything else, nothing has changed. The terminal now stays at the top left corner as I am unable to move it(since I don't use titlebars). There is also a bug(?) I believe. Even If I disable all shadows in the picom config, they still remain on things like notifications, or small boxes containing information(one two three)

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