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Zetsumei

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From: NC

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 156

Why does my transparency just stop working?

Help.  I had my urxvt transparent and working fine and I didn't TOUCH the .Xdefaults and all of the sudden it's not transparent any more.  This happened first with rc.xml for placing the urxvt around the screen.  I was able to do like x7 y50 and it would be perfect.  Now it's x7 y580 and it's perfect.  I got my terminal where i want it though but now how do I get transparency back?

http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskhk9.png

here's my .Xdefaults

urxvt*font:       -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
 
urxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/ccdd
urxvt.foreground: white
!urxvt.internalBorder: 5
urxvt.depth: 32
urxvt.scrollTtyOutput: 0
urxvt.scrollTtyKeypress: 1
 
! background (not tango), foreground, tint color (for inheritPixmap)
!urxvt*background: #000000
!urxvt*foreground: #babdb6
urxvt*tintColor: #d3d7cf
 
urxvt*geometry: 158x30

! Black (not tango) + DarkGrey
urxvt*color0: #000000
urxvt*color8: #555753
 
! DarkRed + Red
urxvt*color1: #a40000
urxvt*color9: #cc0000
 
! DarkGreen + Green
urxvt*color2: #4e9a06
urxvt*color10: #73d216
 
! DarkYellow + Yellow
urxvt*color3: #c4a000
urxvt*color11: #edd400
 
! DarkBlue + Blue
urxvt*color4: #204a87
urxvt*color12: #3465a4
 
! DarkMangenta + Mangenta
urxvt*color5: #ce5c00
urxvt*color13: #f57900
 
!DarkCyan + Cyan (both not tango)
urxvt*color6: #038e82
urxvt*color14: #05d2c1
 
! LightGrey + White
urxvt*color7: #babdb6
urxvt*color15: #d3d7cf
 
URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.matcher.button: 1
URxvt.perl-ext-common: matcher
URxvt*scrollBar:false
!URxvt*transparent:          true
!URxvt*shading:              10
!URxvt*tint:                 black
!URxvt*inheritPixmap:        true
 
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

xterm*faceName:miscFixed
xterm*faceSize:10
xterm*title:Arch Terminal

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

Uh, from what I can see that terminal looks transparent.

What's the issue?

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elmer_42

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From: /na/usa/ca

Registered: 2008-10-11

Posts: 427

Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

I agree, it looks transparent to me. Could you post a picture that is on a more colorful (not black) background?

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Zetsumei

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From: NC

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 156

Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

There's my screen with a more colorful wallpaper.  See what I mean?  I'm trying to get it transparent so that I can see some of theimage through it.  It works fine on my laptop and I'm using the exact same openbox, theme, ,autostart.sh, .Xdefaults, everything.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

Can't you increase the transparency? It can be seen through, but it's just too opaque.

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Zetsumei

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From: NC

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 156

Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

What option does that though?  I've tried increasing the shading option all the way to 1000 reloading .Xdefaults and testing it and nothing.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

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Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

You need to change the end of this line.  RGBA stands for RED, GREEN, BLUE, ALPHA where Alpha is the level of transparency.

urxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/ccdd

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Zetsumei

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From: NC

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 156

Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

well ccdd is on my .Xdefaults on my other computer and its transparent.  Why would this one be different?  Also, what do I change it to to increase transparency?

Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

Posts: 1,229

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Re: Why does my transparency just stop working?

EDIT: Unhelpfull comment deleted.

Last edited by Ashren (2008-10-27 21:24:44)

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