Re: Transparent Window Background Not Working

2018-11-01 Thread KopCam
The "-n" option to xcompmgr made a difference... It behaves more "Normally" now, but the transparency goes away when certain programs are run like xfce4 terminal, or mplayer in the Root Window. The workaround is to do it on a per-screen basis. (I have :0.0, :0.1, and :0.2), and set the DISPLAY

Re: Transparent Window Background Not Working

2018-11-01 Thread KopCam
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:22:25PM +0100, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > Kwin and xfwm are compositors. Fvwm is not, so to use the compositing > extension in fvwm you will need xcompmgr or some other standalone > compositor. xcompmgr changed the root window. fvwm-root and xsetroot don't

Re: Transparent Window Background Not Working

2018-11-01 Thread Thomas Funk
You can try Fvwm-Nightshade (http://fvwm-nightshade.github.io). It has compositor support for xcompmgr and compton. Regards, Thomas Am 1. November 2018 22:23:09 schrieb "Jesús J. Guerrero Botella" : Kwin and xfwm are compositors. Fvwm is not, so to use the compositing extension in fvwm you

Re: Transparent Window Background Not Working

2018-11-01 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Kwin and xfwm are compositors. Fvwm is not, so to use the compositing extension in fvwm you will need xcompmgr or some other standalone compositor. El jue., 1 nov. 2018 15:21, escribió: > I have tried lots of stuff, too much to list at this time, > but the following test program has a