tint2

Ultraman · 2010-03-21 22:10:15

I just love the fading and transparent terminals. Functionality isn't impared for me by staying with tint2 0.8.

I just installed xcompmgr-dana, installed tint2 0.9-3.
The iconify bug has been fixed alright by the -3 version, but my systray is still a mess, too bad.
I doubt the -git version will be much better, but I will try.
I'm doing this right by restarting X, right?

cairo-compmgr

Ah yes, I found that one when I got started with the compositing mess, will take a look...

[Edit]
Tried xcompmgr-git, failed also.
Looking into cairo-compmgr atm...

[Edit2]
Grabbed cairo-compmgr from AUR and edited the PKGBUILD a bit to avoid a shitload of GNOME deps it doesn't even need and included x86_64 in the arch as well (why that wasn't in there?)
Compiled fine, runs fine. Configuring it now. tint2 works fine with it, so perhaps my (or this) problem is solved.

[Edit3]
Yes, cairo-compmgr 0.3 is golden here. Working superb. Disabled all the plugins except for Fade and Menu Animation, simply because that is all I want. Transparent terminal works, tint2 0.9-3 systray works, conky still works.
Good stuff. I'm gonna put this one on the wiki.

[Edit4]
Done; http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cairo_Compmgr

Last edited by Ultraman (2010-03-22 00:17:51)

ammon · 2010-03-22 02:56:09

Hey I have just tried it too, and I have edited wiki a bit. It is posible to remove gconf. So you need vala only.
But this tray icon bothers me, any know way to disable it?

Ultraman · 2010-03-22 11:50:35

ammon wrote:

Hey I have just tried it too, and I have edited wiki a bit. It is posible to remove gconf. So you need vala only.

As I expected . The vala dep is needed for the vala-monitor plugin.

But this tray icon bothers me, any know way to disable it?

I did not find it by some quick searching. The icon does not bother me greatly, but if it can go that would make me happier

Marvell · 2010-03-22 12:42:21

Wow, It works really good for me:) Much better than xcompmgr.

@Ultraman, do you have true transparency in terminals? I use urxvt and I want true transparency too, but I dont know how to do it.

Last edited by Marvell (2010-03-22 12:42:51)

Ultraman · 2010-03-23 00:06:38

I have true transparency in my terminals yes. I use ROXTerm a lot, so I don't know how to set you up with it in urxvt. Isn't something like that in the Wiki's?

Hey I have just tried it too, and I have edited wiki a bit. It is posible to remove gconf. So you need vala only.
But this tray icon bothers me, any know way to disable it?

I decided to revisit this one.
gconf is a needed dependency or this needs further editing out!
I tried compiling cairo-compmgr and installing it on a clean install and without gconf as dep I run into errors:

Failed to open `/usr/share/gconf/schemas/cairo-compmgr.schemas': No such
file or directory

tawan · 2010-03-23 07:09:04

to the original question in this thread, you can make task tray icons smaller by making the padding in the tray larger.

ammon · 2010-03-23 08:01:08

@Ultraman
See wiki, I have posted that you must remove last 3 lines of pkgbuild. So....

pkgname='cairo-compmgr'
pkgver='0.3.0'
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Cairo based composite manager"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('cairo' 'libxcomposite' 'vala')
install="${pkgname}.install"
source=("http://download.tuxfamily.org/ccm/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
md5sums=('f8a2b31d99505ca0308f3533160d8d3b')

build() {
  cd "${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="${startdir}/pkg" install
}

Last edited by ammon (2010-03-23 23:56:44)

Ultraman · 2010-03-23 22:33:44

ammon wrote:

@Ultraman
See wiki, I have posted that you must remove last 3 lines of pkgbuild. So....

pkgname='cairo-compmgr'
pkgver='0.3.0'
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Cairo based composite manager"
arch=('i686')
url="http://cairo-compmgr.tuxfamily.org/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('cairo' 'libxcomposite' 'vala')
install="${pkgname}.install"
source=("http://download.tuxfamily.org/ccm/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
md5sums=('f8a2b31d99505ca0308f3533160d8d3b')

build() {
  cd "${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="${startdir}/pkg" install
}

Yup, I noticed. That was done, still failed on me for some reason.

ammon · 2010-03-23 23:56:59

Ok, what does it say?

Ultraman · 2010-03-24 09:35:28

Same error I posted above:

Failed to open `/usr/share/gconf/schemas/cairo-compmgr.schemas': No such
file or directory

I had to return that PC yesterday, so I can't test on it anymore. I'll have to do other testing on something old I have around here or in a VM. But i'm a bit busy with my studies at the moment, so it will have to wait.

moljac024 · 2010-03-24 10:29:01

This is a problem in sonata. I remember it would have a huge icon in pypanel as well, 2 years ago...

Japanlinux · 2010-05-28 06:56:36

I have a question about tint2 as well. I would like to know if it's possible to exclude tint2 from a workspace. I have 2 workspaces, but I only want tint2 to display on one of them. I tried changing panel_monitor = all to 1 instead. but that didn't seem to do anything. is it possible?

Netsu · 2010-05-28 09:15:45

I'm also interested in that, but was unable to find a way to do this. 'panel_monitor' decides on which monitor tint2 is displayed, not workspace, there's also an option for tint2 to display windows from only the active workspace or all workspaces, but nothing to display it only on one of them as far as I know.

Japanlinux · 2010-05-28 09:24:07

hmm... so I'm not alone huh? Hopefully someone has the answer. I would be bummed if it's not possible, but it's not an issue that would get me to drop Tint2, just something that would make be even happier that I use it.

EDIT: trying a bunch of variables and looking at the tin2 pdf didn't help me any, so I'm starting to think it's not possible. Maybe the new beta has that feature. That, or perhaps my WM can be made to take tint2 of a certain virtual desktop. It'd be kinda like a workaround, but I'd be okay with that if tint2 can't natively do it.

Last edited by Japanlinux (2010-05-28 09:37:19)

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Re: tint2

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Re: tint2

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Re: tint2

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