9 Apr
2019
9 Apr
'19
4:39 a.m.
On 2019-04-07 14:02:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2019 Sun, 7 Apr 13:08:49 -0400
E. Liddell scripsit:
My guess is that when started from .xinitrc, something in Trinity that it
needs hasn't started yet.
Leslie
On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 15:26:26 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office(a)klepp.biz> wrote:
Hi!
Ok, tried "own_window_argb_visual = true", but it changes nothing.
Compositor sounds like a good thing to blame, I'll try to figure that out.
Nik
Hi all!
I try to get a transparent background with conky, but somehow I need
dirty tricks to make it going:
When I start conky from .xinitrc ("sleep 15; conky -d"), the background
is blue and stays blue when TDE is running. Conky writes text on that
blue background, but never erases it, so it gets unreadable after some
time. Switching to another desktop and back again does not change this.
The behaviour is the same without delay, so that TDE starts in parallel
and twin comes up after conky.
When I start conky from .trinity/Autostart/<something>.desktop - which
calls only "sleep 15; conky -d", then the background is black and stays
black, conky erases it before writing. Switching to another desktop and
back again gives a pseudo-transparent background in conky. When twin
comes up after conky, then the background of conky is as above (blue
without erase).
I have put the second way including switching desktops into a file
that's called from TDE autostart, so things basicly work.
But what I do not understand: what is the difference from calling conky
from .xinitrc to calling it from .trinity/Autostart? And what chages,
if twin comes up before/after conky? I'm quite sure that this is TDE
specific, 'cause when running fvwm I do not observe this. And it looks
like it is OS agnostic, I see the same thing happen on FreeBSD, too.
Hmmm. Probably either something to do with the compositor not being up
or the root window not being available for it to draw on. I've never had
any problems with conky and transparency that weren't traceable either to
my fiddling with compositors, or the video card on the ten-year-old
laptop I use as a secondary machine being poorly behaved.
A comparison of our configs turns up some slight differences, but the
only one that looks at all relevant is the fact that I have
"own_window_argb_visual = true" set.
E. Liddell