[SOLVED] urxvt 9.10 transparency

OBLiQUE · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

after i updated the urxvt to 9.10 i don't have transparency..
if i reinstall 9.07 then transparency works fine..

i have these USE flags enabled for rxvt-unicode: 256-color blink fading-colors font-styles force-hints perl pixbuf truetype vanilla

any ideas?

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champ · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:12 am Post subject:

OBLiQUE,

How did you set transparency?

Recently, the resource for transparency was changed from inheritPixmap to transparent if you are using .Xresources or .Xdefault
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OBLiQUE · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

champ · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:40 pm Post subject:

Here is the relevant part of my .Xdefault (actually .Xresources):

OBLiQUE · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

no luck again

what WM or DE do you use?

champ · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:

I am using Awesome WM.

One final suggestion. I recently had problems with urxvt not honoring my .Xdefaults file. I changed to using .Xresources and loading it with xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
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OBLiQUE · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

thanks for all the replies .. i found the problem..

solution:
1) remove "URxvt*tintColor:" from .Xdefaults
2) install fvwm (because it has fvwm-root)
3) set wallpaper with fvwm-root .. because i have awesome-wm i set it with: awsetbg -f -u fvwm-root /path/file.png

x11-terms/rxvt-unicode does not need any extra USE flags.. defaults are fine..

Angrychile · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 235

I still have this issue and I'm using urxvt on awesome too. I don't feel like installing a new wm just to fix this.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

It looks like the OP was talking about false transparency. No wonder none of the solutions given could work. False transparency works by showing the root desktop through the terminal. Currently most recent DE do not set the root desktop, and the desktop background you see is set above the root desktop.

To set the root desktop to some wallpaper you can use any image program which supports it. A lightweight example is feh.
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XQYZ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 231 Location: Europe

If you want true transparency (which I kind of don't see the point with awesome except if you heavily use floating apps), then you need a composition manager afaik.

theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

You can use "feh" to set the root background, I think it is the only WM independent tool that sets the correct flag (the other working ones that I know of being Eterm's Esetroot and Fvwm's fvwm-root, the latter doesn't support jpeg files though).

For the record Imagemagick's "display" utility does not work.
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swimmer · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: