On 16.12.2011 20:36, Alexander Yakushev wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DClD_WnIyD8#t=75s > > Look carefully on the bottom of urxvt window between 1:17 and 1:18. > Wiboxes that are under it flash lime for a moment.
Thanks to the "pause" button, I can tell that it is flashing in green... > ffmpeg hadn't caught > any more than that but widgets go all the way like this when I switch > between tags (in general, when something is redrawn on the top of them). > I make wiboxes transparent by setting zero alpha channel to them, i.e.: > > local wbox = wibox({ name = wname, bg = '#00FF0000', > height = wheight , width = wwidth }) > > As you can see, I set the background color of the wibox to... wait... > lime! I'd call that green, but ok. :-P The problem (I guess) is that the X11 server doesn't (really) support transparency for a window's background. So the "background color" property of the wibox gets set to "#ff0000". When an exposure happens, the X server will fill that area in green and afterwards tell awesome to redraw its stuff. Awesome will then grab the wallpaper and do its magic. I really do think that setting the background to #00141714 (which is what gimp says most of your wallpaper is) makes this issue less noticable. > But interestingly even if I change this color to another the flash > is still lime. BTW you want bg_color = '#00141714', not bg = '#00141714'. Else that stuff gets ignored and the color stays the same. :-P > On 12/16/2011 08:54 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote: >> Uhm, what? Tell me more. Could you perhaps make a screenshot / >> make-a-video-and-extract-a-screenshot for that? How do you make your >> wibox' background transparent? @myself: Can't we set our double-buffering pixmap as XCB_CW_BACK_PIXEMAP and the issue disappears completely? (If only I had the time to test...) Cheers, Uli -- - Buck, when, exactly, did you lose your mind? - Three months ago. I woke up one morning married to a pineapple. An ugly pineapple... But I loved her. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.