Hi,
"Bearcat M. Sandor" <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm a happy Awesome user, but i do miss my transparent windows from
> compiz days. To that end i have the following in my luarc:
>
> awful.util.spawn_with_shell("xcompmgr -CcFf -t-5 -l-5 -r10.2 -o.55 -D3
> -I-.015 -O-.03 &")
>
> under awful.rules.rules i have:
>
> { rule = { class = "urxvt" }, properties = { opacity =
> 0.8 } },
>
> What i don't understand is that only the terminal with the background
> set to !URxvt*background: #3B3B3B is transparent and not the one set
> to URxvt*background: #3f3f3f
>
> Does xcompmgr only make darker colors transparent?
xcompmgr only renders a window as translucent if _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY
property is set (you can check that this property is set with xprop) and
leave it to the window manager or any other tool (such as transset[0])
to set this property.
I'm not sure why using properties does not work there. Personally I use
different opacity value according to the focus status:
client.add_signal(
"focus",
function(c)
if c.class and (c.class:lower():find("rxvt") or
c.class:lower():find("emacs")) then
c.opacity = 1.0
end
end)
client.add_signal(
"unfocus",
function(c)
if c.class and (c.class:lower():find("rxvt") or
c.class:lower():find("emacs")) then
c.opacity = 0.7
end
end)
> Also, is there another compositing manager i can use with awesome? I
> don't think the compositing manager of compiz can be used by itself
> can it, and the cairo composite manager project looks dead.
As Compiz is a composite window manager, it cannot be used with Awesome.
I'm currently developing a composite manager (similar to xcompmgr but
more extendable through plugins) called unagi[1]. Version 0.2 is rather
slow but the latest git version is supposed to be much faster (version
0.3 should be released very soon). For now, there is only an opacity
plugin (and an exposé plugin but it's barely usable so I don't advise
using it until it is fixed for version 0.4). Feel free to try it and
reports feedbacks/bugs!
Regards,
--
Arnaud Fontaine
[0] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/transset
[1] http://projects.mini-dweeb.org/projects/unagi
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