Cairo-clock with black background, while xcompmgr is running

Corsair · 2007-10-20 05:37:27

Hi all

I'm using fvwm-crystal as wm, with xcompmgr as composite manager, and it works perfectly. But when I start cairo-clock, there is a black square background, which I think will appear only when composite extension is disabled.

Have you guys ever experience this?

peets · 2007-10-20 05:51:31

Yes, I've experienced this using pekwm. I used xcompmgr and transset to set transparency on some windows, so I know xcompmgr worked; however cairo-clock still had that black rectangle. There is a thread on this forum that says xcompmgr should do the trick, but it doesn't work for me.

iBertus · 2007-10-20 06:01:05

I believe for the transparent background to work the WM has to support ARGB visuals. Last I checked FVWM didn't do this correctly (it uses the root visual instead of the one requested by the window being drawn) and so no true-transparency is going to work without a patch. That said, a patch was posted to fvwm-workers awhile back that made this work but it broke several other things (proper drawing of window borders).

Corsair · 2007-10-20 06:47:56

Ah... Thanks. I'll check the thread and the patch out.
:-|

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#1 2007-10-20 05:37:27

Cairo-clock with black background, while xcompmgr is running

#2 2007-10-20 05:51:31

Re: Cairo-clock with black background, while xcompmgr is running

#3 2007-10-20 06:01:05

Re: Cairo-clock with black background, while xcompmgr is running

#4 2007-10-20 06:47:56

Re: Cairo-clock with black background, while xcompmgr is running

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