[openbox] OpenBox 3.0 and Transparency [longish]
Eric Shattow
shadow at serverart.org
Tue Jan 13 08:41:50 EST 2004
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:
>
>
>>Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>>
>>
>>># neuhauser at bellavista.cz / 2004-01-09 10:32:01 +0100:
>>>
>>>
>>>># neuhauser at bellavista.cz / 2004-01-08 18:50:15 +0100:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>># ben at orodu.net / 2004-01-08 12:43:09 -0500:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>
> 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).
>
> 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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