Damn, I didn't know about compton(I was using xcompmgr). I just changed
the default config file and it works much smoother.

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:15:47PM +0200, Elv1313 . wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 1) Transparency is managed by something called a "compositor". Awesome
> does not ship one by default. I suggest "Compton". Some KDE Plasma
> functions directly interact with KWin. You don't have KWin anymore, so
> that obvioustly wont work. Compton will restore some transparency, for
> everything else, just forget about it, you wont have it back.
> 
> 2) You can set a "workarea" for each screen, see the Awesome API for details
> http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/
> 
> Good luck
> 
> On 23 September 2014 21:06, Max Görner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > due to my demand for eye-candy and some decent integration I used KDE
> > until very recently. Some days ago I changed KDEs window manager to
> > awesome and I'm quite pleased so far.
> >
> > Unfortunately I need some help with two problems:
> >
> > 1) Transparency does not seem to work. This is a problem mainly, if not
> > only, when running krunner. However, when calling krunner, the
> > background of the result-list is dark grey instead of transparent. It
> > would be great to address this.
> >
> > 2) Considerably more important is a tiling-related issue. When using two
> > monitors the monitor with the KDE control bar uses only the upper half
> > of the screen for tiling. All tiling methods do work, although only on
> > the upper half. I've got the suspicion that the control bar uses the
> > lower half. I'd like to change that, so that the area used for tiling is
> > the screen size minus the size of the control bar. Currently I don't
> > want to do without that bar.
> >
> >
> > It would be great if someone could give some helpful hints. I'm using
> > Debian Testing (Jessie) with awesome 3.5.5 and KDE.
> >
> > sincerely,
> > Max
> >
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