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SilverSurfer972
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 Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:52 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Compton and xcompmgr launch but no visible effects |
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Hello,
I have a i3 desktop with the opensource radeon and Direct rendering enabled but I can't get any composite effect to work.
When I launch compton or xcompmgr the screen blink promptly but no effects are visible.
I can confirm that direct rendering works since I can play 3D games on steam.
| Code: | $ xdpyinfo -display :0 | grep Composite
Composite |
I tried tied on mesa 11.0.6 and now 12.0.1 without success.
At this point I don't know where to look further.
My X11 settings:
| Code: | $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection
Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection |
My .xinitrc
| Code: | $ cat ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session i3
#fcitx
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I tried to launch compton with glx and xrender backends without success.
Any hint?
Thanks
Last edited by SilverSurfer972 on Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:51 am; edited 1 time in total |
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franzf
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| AFAIR there are no effects enabled by default. Do you already have a ~/.config/compton.conf? Can you add shadow = true; and restart compton - do you get shadows? |
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SilverSurfer972
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Yes I did but no effects are showing up at all. I also tried different configuration files with no success. The current one I am using is this one:
http://pastebin.com/Jtbjbdkd |
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franzf
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| Anything interesting in the output when you start compton from a terminal? |
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SilverSurfer972
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Absolutely nothing, the process is still running but no output at all 
Same for xcompmgr |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Any success if you run this? It should flicker and give you the default shadows on windows right away, but won't print anything in the terminal.
| Code: | | compton --shadow --config /dev/null |
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SilverSurfer972
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | Any success if you run this? It should flicker and give you the default shadows on windows right away, but won't print anything in the terminal.
| Code: | | compton --shadow --config /dev/null |
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Nice way to force not reading any conf file.
The culprit was the | Quote: | | "!I3_FLOATING_WINDOW@:c" |
filter rule on the shadow-exclude array.
I must have not noticed the shadow on the other configuration files I tried 
Thanks a lot for the help.
You guys are fantastic! |
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