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Topic: My xcompmgr settings

I was not too sure where to post this, but I figured this might be a good place. Basically, I am interested to know what xcompmgr settings other people are using. I have always found xcompmgr to be slightly flaky in use, but I have recently been having some success with the following settings:

xcompmgr -CcfF -I-.015 -O-.03 -D4 -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.75 -m.82

Note, the above is for use with the 'xcompmgr-dana' package. I guess you could adjust for use with the normal package like so:

xcompmgr -CcfF -I-.015 -O-.03 -D4 -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.75

The only issue I have noticed with using the above settings is that xcompmgr will occasionally crash when I use a 'gksudo' command. It is not a big deal as I have written a small daemon to restart it.

Would anyone else care to share their settings?

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

I've had success with these lately but xcompmgr crashes just about every time I launch a sudo app. I'm using dana as well to get transparent menus.

#EXEC='xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 -I1 -O1 -Ff -m.86' #basic and transparent menus
#EXEC='xcompmgr -cCfF -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 -D6 -m.86' #more effects, transparent menus
EXEC='xcompmgr -cCfF -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 -D2 -m.86' #more effects, quicker fade and transparent menus

Think I'll give yours a whirl corenominal and see if it makes a difference.

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

I've been using vanilla xcompmgr with default settings and it's been really stable on karmic. I just installed xcompmgr-dana and am testing out your settings to see how the work. I'll let you know in a little.

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

iggykoopa wrote:

I've been using vanilla xcompmgr with default settings and it's been really stable on karmic. I just installed xcompmgr-dana and am testing out your settings to see how the work. I'll let you know in a little.

Good stuff, I am interested to know how you get on with it. smile

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

I've been using your settings for a couple hours now and have only made two changes, I lowered the fade speed since slow fades are annoying to me, and I removed the drop shadows since they weren't playing nice with conky and I didn't feel like spending the time to resolve it. Other than that it's performing well on my mini, no lock-ups and it looks much nicer than the defaults I was using.(this is on karmic so the intel graphics are running smoother now, not sure if it would be an issue on 9.04)

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

I'm still getting the occasional xcompmgr crash when launching a gksudo app but not as much as before. Like iggykoopa I also turned down the fade (to D1). Slow fades drive me nuts smile

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

omns wrote:

I'm still getting the occasional xcompmgr crash when launching a gksudo app but not as much as before.

Currently, the gksudo bug/crashing is the only issue I am having with xcompmgr. hmm

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

this is where I got so far

xcompmgr -CcfF -I-.02 -O-.04 -D0001 -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.82 -m.82 &

the fade is very quick, still visible but keeping the response speed expected in openbox

the transparency is just a little more opaque so my dark menus work over all things.

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

Just playing today again and realized how the above D0001 is a stupid value. Having 0001 is still only 1 so I have realized that now.

The D is really the speed of the fade but anything other than 1 is too slow and I can't see how to get faster than 1. Fades are one thing making Gnome and KDE feel slower than they are so no need to do that to Openbox.

As for the I in and O out values I can't make them really show much change that I want so I set them both high so they are almost not there. The logic being that they step such high amounts per increment that they are not seen. Removing them altogether unfortunately stops the transparent menus working.

xcompmgr -CcfF -I20 -O10 -D1 -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.82 -m.82 &

So for speed and transparency and shadows I have gone for the above settings. Ideal settings would be just the transparency in menus, the shadows but no fade at all as all fade does, even quick fades, is make Openbox feel slow.

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

Iggykoopa, could you post your settings for us?

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

sorry it was more than a couple weeks ago. I tend to change my setup fairly often and don't always save the previous settings.

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

hi i need help for trayer. i use xcompmgr with crunchbang default settings. but trayer have a window and fade. screenshot is in above and my trayer config:

trayer --expand true --transparent true  --alpha 255 --edge top --align right --SetDockType false --widthtype request --distance 15 --margin 15 --height 20

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

corenominal wrote:
omns wrote:

I'm still getting the occasional xcompmgr crash when launching a gksudo app but not as much as before.

Currently, the gksudo bug/crashing is the only issue I am having with xcompmgr. hmm

So whats the fix or workaround for this 2009 bug? I'm on #! 10

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

hydn wrote:
corenominal wrote:
omns wrote:

I'm still getting the occasional xcompmgr crash when launching a gksudo app but not as much as before.

Currently, the gksudo bug/crashing is the only issue I am having with xcompmgr. hmm

So whats the fix or workaround for this 2009 bug? I'm on #! 10


Ok so I re-installed #! 10 then, tested xcompmgr and sudo gksudo and they didn't crash xcompmgr on a clean CB install. So I start to customize my CB and made sure to test sudo/gksudo after every change and it started crashing when I added the recently_opened_menu.sh to .dash_places_menu.sh. So I removed .dash_places_menu.sh from menu.xml and restarted and no crash. xcompmge has not crashed since removing .dash_places_menu.sh. So I only use dash_places_menu.sh.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by hydn (2012-03-17 20:09:25)

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Re: My xcompmgr settings

and make sure conky is set to:

## xcompmgr
own_window_type override
own_window_argb_visual yes

as per #! suggestion.

Last edited by hydn (2012-03-17 21:20:10)