Well xcompmgr is buggy, did you try with the cairo-compositing-manager? (also described in the wiki)
Chris Am Freitag, den 10.04.2009, 12:10 +0200 schrieb Jan Kasprzak: > Hello, > > I have been playing with xcompmgr and transparency as described in > > http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Enabling_transparency > > - the xcompmgr effects work for me, but transparency (both > Native-focus-transparency.jl and Window-alpha.jl) have a slight > problem: > > With my border style (blue-steel), which already > has transparent parts of the window decoration, those parts > are now drawn as semi-transparent black (with the same alpha > as the black pixels in the window itself). The only exception > is when I set the opacity to 1.0 - then the transparent parts > of the window decoration are drawn correctly. > > The problem is not urgent for me, because after trying > to use a semi-transparent unfocused windows for a while I have > decided that I don't want this feature - I often read from the > different window than I type to. Xcompmgr effects (and its > "backing store") are nice enough to keep them. > > -Yenya >
