You are not logged in.
I've installed openbox on my laptop, and have been trying to get true transparency on urxvt to work. I run xcompmgr -c, via autostart.sh, have set depth to 32, and have the background set to rgba settings, and still all i get is either pseudo transparency (if i have inheritPixmap on true), or opaque if i set inheritPixmap to false, as if I was in 24 bit. I'm very stumped at the moment. Any help will be appreciated.
P. S. I am using nvidia, and my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
# Option "NoFlip" "True"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I am, however, using HAL autoplugging.
Last edited by oddsocks (2009-07-30 09:44:24)
Offline
You have to tell the X server to enable the composite extensions.
Add
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
to your xorg.conf.
Offline
Ok I'll try that, but my xdpyinfo shows Composite is enabled
xdpyinfo | grep Composite
Last edited by oddsocks (2009-07-29 10:38:32)
Offline
You also could try to start urxvt like the german arch wiki suggests:
urxvt -name Terminal -fn "xft:Monospace:pixelsize=11" -fade 20 +sb -depth 32 -fg white -bg rgba:2000/2000/2000/dddd
Offline
the following works for me:
~/.Xdefaults
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*buffered: true
URxvt*foreground: #909090
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
URxvt*transparent: false
URxvt*fading: 2%
URxvt*fadeColor: grey
URxvt*shading: 75
~/.xinitrc
xcompmgr -fF &
for xcompmgr, -c just gives shadows, -f is fading/transparency IIRC.
//github/
Offline
oddsocks, show us your Xdefaults or the way you are opening urxvt.
Offline
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm currently not in front of my laptop, so I'll try all of the above and let you know how it went by tonight (Australian time)
Offline
K tried your config brisbin33 and I got it working! I didn't work with the original installation, but reinstalling arch from scratch got it working. Maybe it was just a program I installed that interfered with the compositing (I think the main culprit was cairo-compmgr, but I guess I'll never know)
Thanks for all the help guys!
P.S. This is why I like Arch so much, excellent OS, excellent community.
Offline