Anno domini 2019 Sun, 7 Apr 13:08:49 -0400 E. Liddell scripsit: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 15:26:26 +0200 > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...> wrote: > > > 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 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...