[openbox] Transparency artefacts with urxvt

[Cedric Sodhi]

Found a work arround to this which is really just a workarround but might show that this is a xcompmgr problem. Setting xcompmgr to serverside compositing with -s fixed this immediately.

On 08/08/2010 09:21 PM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> The Wiki describes this problem but I've run into a weird phenomena. I'm
> using openbox with xcompmgr and urxvt as suggested and I've set
> xresources to
>
> urxvt...
> background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/5555
> foreground: green
> font: ...
> depth: 32
> tintColor: white
> shading: 0
>
> (tried shading: 100 and others, too)
>
> THe problem is the artefacts do still appear UNTIL I resize urxvt - then
> suddenly transparency increases (or it just looks that way) and the
> artefacts for that specific window disappear.
>
> If I specify the parameter as cli options it gets even more random:
>
> urxvt -tint white -sh 100 -> window with artefacts until resized appears
> -> closed
> urxvt -tint white -sh 0 -> window with artefacts until resized again ->
> closed
> urxvt -tint white -sh 100 -> window WITHOUT artefacts
>
>
> Any ideas? I hoping you guy could help because you accounted for that in
> your wiki!
>
> Thanks,
> --MD
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