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Kyle Carter

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Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 91

a couple of small fluxbox/xcompmgr/conky/urxvt problems.

Hey guys, I've been settling into Fluxbox this week after spending a while in Openbox, and I'm noticing a couple issues which are small, although somewhat irritating:

1) Urxvt is no longer transparent. In Openbox with Xcompmgr, I had Urxvt running with true transparancy. With no changes at all to my xdefaults, this does not work in fluxbox. I'm assuming it has something to do with fb's built-in alpha settings, but who knows. I've been unable to find any documentation on how to fix this? Have any of you managed to get this working?

2) Conky casts a drop shadow. I don't want it to. Is there a way I can set rules for Xcompmgr to have it exclude certain applications?

clarencelee

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Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 8

Re: a couple of small fluxbox/xcompmgr/conky/urxvt problems.

I managed to make urxvt transparent on startup with my fluxbox.
Edit ~/.fluxbox/startup and add:

urxvt -tr &

before the line:

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

I hope this helps.

Meanwhile I'm still trying to find out how to get copy/paste working between urxvt and other X applications. For now I have to use gnome-terminal to get copy/paste support.

Clarence