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Topic: struggling with xcompmgr and/or cairo-compmgr

So here's the issue, which i hope has a simple solution.

If i activate xcompmgr, my Conky gets a shadow around it, and terminal windows have no shadows(this is also mentioned in another thread)

If i use cairo-compmgr, terminals now have shadow and Conky doesn't get a shadow... but my Tint2 does,and windows won't go over conky, they go behind it, making that section of the window unseeable

How do/did you guys get around this?

  • Registered: 2011-05-23
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Re: struggling with xcompmgr and/or cairo-compmgr

What are you looking for?
As i understand: no shadows for conky, but what for the terminals?

If you don't want shadows on the terminals, stick with xcompmgr, we'll fix conky...
Try switching between the three options for:

own_window_type normal/desktop/override

in your .conkyrc.

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Re: struggling with xcompmgr and/or cairo-compmgr

I stuck with cairo compmgr.

used these lines:

own_window_type desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes

they were actually in the conkyrc file, but were commented out. So i had to comment out the other ones for the xcompmgr and no compositing.

ie, this whole section is in the conkyrc file. comment out the ones you dont need

##############################################
# Compositing tips:
# Conky can play strangely when used with
# different compositors. I have found the
# following to work well, but your mileage
# may vary. Comment/uncomment to suit.
##############################################
## no compositor -- i commented the following 2 lines out
#own_window_type override
#own_window_argb_visual no

## xcompmgr -- commented next 2 lines out, as im not using xompmgr
#own_window_type override
#own_window_argb_visual yes

## cairo-compmgr -- uncommented these two
own_window_type desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes

hope this helps someone.

and thanks el belgicano.

Last edited by none (2011-12-25 14:21:24)

  • Registered: 2011-05-23
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Re: struggling with xcompmgr and/or cairo-compmgr

No problems.

Don't forget to mark it "solved"... ;-)