urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

gagle · 2009-05-12 00:08:43

Hi,

I use Awesome as desktop environment but got tired of Xterm and gave urxvt a try.
Problem is that the individual terminal window will flicker when I switch to it, wether be on the same 'tab' or when switching 'tab' in Awesome.

Bellow is my .Xdefaults file :

Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: true
Xft.dpi: 96

!--------------------------------------------------
!       U R X V T - Setting
!--------------------------------------------------


urxvt*font:            xft:Terminus
urxvt*boldFont:            xft:Terminus
urxvt*italicFont:        xft:Terminus
urxvt*bolditalicFont:        xft:Terminus
urxvt*scrollBar:        false
urxvt*internalBorder:    6

urxvt*background:    #2e2e2e
urxvt*foreground:    #DDDDDD
urxvt*inheritPixmap:    true
#urxvt*fading:            60
#urxvt*tintColor:        #111111
urxvt*shading:            20

! 0: black
*color0:  #242424
*color8:  #242424

! 1: red
*color1:  #9f6767
*color9:  #9f6767

! 2: green
*color2:  #92ac68
*color10: #92ac68

! 3: yellow
*color3:  #d0d293
*color11: #d0d293

! 4: blue
*color4:  #9aacc3
*color12: #9aacc3

! 5: magenta
*color5:  #bb77a4
*color13: #bb77a4

! 6: cyan
*color6:  #77bbb5
*color14: #77bbb5

! 7: white
*color7:  #777777
*color15: #777777


urxvt*perl-ext-common:    default,matcher
urxvt*urlLauncher:      /usr/bin/firefox
urxvt*matcher.button:    1
urxvt*cursorBlink:      true
urxvt*termName:         rxvt
urxvt*saveLines:    5000

Anyone care to take a look or has a suggestion ?
I'll stick around so feel free to request relevant information.

Thanks,

G.

rson451 · 2009-05-12 00:30:10

I've seen this when transparent is set to true, but only on certain video cards. Just for kicks, turn off the inheritPixmap setting and/or fading and see if that has any effect.

gagle · 2009-05-12 00:59:45

The inheritPixmaps serttings was the problem.
Guess i'll say goodby to transparency.
Unless, could my Nvidia graphics cards and the Xorg.conf be causing the problem or are there really no work-arounds ?

Thanks a lot anyways,

I can use my desktop without getting a headache so....

EDIT : the flicker is reduced by 99% intensity. I can still see the refresh but that's maybe just becaus I should go outside more.

Last edited by gagle (2009-05-12 01:05:24)

rson451 · 2009-05-12 01:02:42

I have the problem on my netbook which has intel integrated graphics with no xorg.conf. I have not found a resolution. Note that this also screws up focus follows mouse implementations too because when the urxvt window is (presumably) redrawn, it also gets focus if under the mouse which is incorrect.

tomd123 · 2009-05-12 23:06:58

Hmmm, my problem might be related with yours also. I have an intel 945gm.

Check out my post at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 12#p552112

I also noticed that my urxvt windows sometimes gets redrawn incorrectly. Sometimes it will draw the caret as being innactive when it actually is and vice versa.

Last edited by tomd123 (2009-05-12 23:23:02)

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#1 2009-05-12 00:08:43

urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

#2 2009-05-12 00:30:10

Re: urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

#3 2009-05-12 00:59:45

Re: urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

#4 2009-05-12 01:02:42

Re: urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

#5 2009-05-12 23:06:58

Re: urxvt with Awesome 3 flickers.

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