[openbox] OpenBox 3.0 and Transparency [longish]

[Eric Shattow]

Ah.  I'm glad we could make this thread longer.  Give gnome-terminal and 
aterm a try.  is the behavior the same as you describe happens with rxvt?

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

># shadow at serverart.org / 2004-01-13 06:37:06 -0600:
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>>Roman Neuhauser wrote:
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>>># 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).
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>  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.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>  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:
>>>
>>>  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).
>>>
>>>  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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>>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.
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>    I don't want the window contents refreshed during move; I don't want
>    to *see* the contents while moving the window (I use
>    session.opaqueMove: False with openbox-2; NB: the frame drawn during
>    non-opaque move in ob3 is somehow obtrusive, I think it's thicker or
>    something).
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>    What I'm talking about is what happens when I *release* the window:
>    It displays the old background for about half a second, then catches
>    up.
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