[openbox] OpenBox 3.0 and Transparency [longish]

[Eric Shattow]

i've been using aterm, and now, gnome-terminal.   neither one updates 
during the drag with openbox3 (3.1), but after the drag there are no 
issues and the pseudo transparency updates just fine.

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

># neuhauser at bellavista.cz / 2004-01-09 10:32:01 +0100:
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>># neuhauser at bellavista.cz / 2004-01-08 18:50:15 +0100:
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>>># ben at orodu.net / 2004-01-08 12:43:09 -0500:
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>>>>It is rxvt and aterm at fault. They are setting their window to
>>>>ParentRelative, which is just not right. Since Openbox draws in the frame
>>>>window which is their parent, they do not get their desired results. They
>>>>should grab the hints off the Root window and use them.
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>>>    thanks for the info, this is just what I wanted to hear. I'll go
>>>    bug rxvt's author(s).
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>>    Date: 2004-01-08 17:22
>>    Sender: gcw
>>    Logged In: YES 
>>    user_id=22709
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>>    rxvt [-/+ip] is InheritPixmap which is fast artificial
>>    transparency.  This is worked around in later 2.7 versions
>>    for  applications which set the root background and also set
>>    the _XROOTPMAP_ID atom appropriately.  Try upgrading to
>>    2.7.10.  Current aterm should also work properly.
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>    I tried to follow up to the PR at www.rxvt.org, but the tracker
>    ignores me, so the rxvt guys won't see this:
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>    transparency in 2.7.10 is terribly slow: the background catches up
>    after like half a second after dragging the window, and doesn't work
>    reliably: shade the window, unshade, it has white background (moving
>    the window "fixes" it).
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>    I reverted to 2.6.4 with solid background until I find a terminal
>    that works with openbox-3 like rxvt-2.6.4 does with openbox-2.
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