urxvt only transparent at shading=100 [SOLVED]

[audiodef]

Would anyone know why urxvt is only transparent when shading=100? If it's 99, 101, or anything other than 100, there is no transparency at all.

[gorkypl]

Strange. Maybe you could use true transparency instead?
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[audiodef]

I would, but I'm using Fluxbox and no compositor...
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[gorkypl]

You can give compton a try, I use it with awesome without problems.

I know it's not a solution to your question, but I have no problems with fake/true transparency so the only thing that comes to my mind is recommending the latter
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[audiodef]

I'll check out compton. How much of a footprint does it have?
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[gorkypl]

Close to nothing, on my system urxvtd uses ten times more resources with one client spawned.

I run compton in background with 'compton -b', without any shadows or transitions (it can do them, though).
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[barul]

Dude, fluxbox can handle composite now. I think it was one of the two projects of the GSoC last year. It's even included in the main branch.

I just run xcompmgr while I've got the correct settings in my .Xdefaults, and that's it.
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[gorkypl]

barul, you might want to know that compton is a fork of xcompmgr which does not have problems with memory leaks

Also unagi might be worth a try, though it seems that noone have made an ebuild yet.
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[colo-des]

$ equery uses rxvt-unicode
- - afterimage : Enable transparency support using media-libs/libafterimage (deprecated in 9.14)
+ + pixbuf : Enable transparency support using gtk's pixbuf

Disable afterimage and enable pixbuf in you /etc/portage/package.use

$ eix -Ic rxvt-unicode
[I] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode (9.15@12/04/12): rxvt clone with xft and unicode support

Regards

[audiodef]

Wouldn't you know it - it all works after my last world update. No idea which package it was, but hey - it's working.
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[smartass]

Same problem here, just did an excruciating world update after several months.

Works with shading at 100 only.
I tried enabling pixbuf and reemerging gdk-pixbuf, no luck so far.

While reading the FAQ at /usr/share/doc/rxvt-unicode-9.15/README.FAQ.bz2 I tried the second mentioned method with -pixmap and that worked, including shading, setting it by -sh or in .Xdefaults did work.

However, that's just a workaround.

I think I'll just emerge -e world overnight, revdep-rebuld may have missed some libs.