Damn, I didn't know about compton(I was using xcompmgr). I just changed the default config file and it works much smoother.
-- Nikola 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 > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
