[Fluxbox-users] [fluxbox-users] xcompmgr/compton + compositing + fluxbox

[Javier Vasquez]

Hi,

To enable the Xorg compositing extension, and be able to use true
transparency, I'm using compton (I've used xcompmgr with worse
results), but I experience some problems:

1.- At times, though fluxbox is still up and running, it stops
managing the non GTK/QT applications, such xterm or rxvt-unicode. The
only way to get fluxbox to start controlling them again is through a
fluxbox restart.

2.- At times, when restarting fluxbox due to [1], the X session dies,
and a new login is required.

As I said, with xcompmgr the problems show up more often, both [1] and
[2]. That's why I keep using compton.

First, is there any other way to enable Xorg compositing extension,
and provide true transparency, like gtk applications with transparent
menus, rxvt-unicode true transparency, and fluxbox transparent menus
and toolbars, and so on, rathen than using compositing managers?

If not, any other guys experimenting this? How to avoid these problems?

In case, I'm calling compton in my ~/.xinitrc, prior to calling
startfluxbox, like this:

compton -bc -o 0.22 -m 0.88 &

I'm not having any particular Xorg configuration to enable compositing.

Some fluxbox setting to take advantage of transparency:

session.screen0.menu.alpha: 210
session.screen0.slit.alpha: 210
session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha: 215
session.screen0.toolbar.alpha: 210

For rxvt-unicode:

URxvt*.depth: 32
URxvt*.background: [88]#000000

And for conky:

own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_transparent = true,

Don't think those settings will help anything, but just in case...
One more thing, I'm using Arch GNU/Linux for x86-64.

Thanks,