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mreff555
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject: openbox transparency |
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Now that my system is pretty stable, I'm trying to play with the cosmetics a bit. I run openbox, with a slim for the display manager. Currently there are no programs installed to set a background for openbox, so it retains the background set by slim. I like it this way.
I would also like to have transparent terminals. At least for guake and terminator.
In guake the options are in the preferences but they do not work.
I found this documentation on xcompmgr at"
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Transparency
which is pretty interesting, but like I said I would prefer not to have an overlay and I don't see anything in the options about shutting it off.
Has anyone else got tansparency in guake working? |
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Jaglover
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mreff555
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Jaglover wrote: | | I know there is SLiM login manager. What is slim display manager and how do you run it with Openbox? Just wondering. |
Bad terminology on my part. Slim is the login manager, XDM display manager |
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dodo3773
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Openbox does not have compositing built in. If you want transparency you will need xcompmgr, compton, cairo-compmgr, etc.. There is not another way to get it working. After experimenting with most of them the one I have found most stable for me is xcompmgr. Which I run like this if I want compositing:
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xcompmgr -cCfF -r7 -o.65 -l-10 -t-8 -D7
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In the end though I gave up on compositing completely as I found that it only makes my systems feel slower and buggier. Your mileage may vary.
I think slim and xdm serve the same purpose pretty much. I don't think you can run them both at the same time. |
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mreff555
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Honestly, this system was originally built around being fast, and at this point it still is. If it is going to be this much of a pain in the butt, and slow down the system, I may just skip it.
As for Slim and XDM, I am very confused about what is what.
When my computer is booting is says " Starting SLiM"
When I want to configure my login manager I do it in /etc/slim.conf
however when I type rc-status there is no slim, only xdm? |
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slugggerzzz
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Have a look at transet..
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dodo3773
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| mreff555 wrote: |
As for Slim and XDM, I am very confused about what is what.
When my computer is booting is says " Starting SLiM"
When I want to configure my login manager I do it in /etc/slim.conf
however when I type rc-status there is no slim, only xdm? |
I am pretty sure xdm is setup as a meta daemon/service that will start other display managers. You're doing it right as far as I know (xdm -> slim). My understanding of this is limited though since I do not use a display manager. |
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mreff555
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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They really are more of a pain in the but than they are worth. Even slim really slows down old systems.
No real advantages other than being pretty |
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dodo3773
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| mreff555 wrote: | They really are more of a pain in the but than they are worth. Even slim really slows down old systems.
No real advantages other than being pretty |
I autologin my system to openbox without a display manager. It's pretty simple. Just edit inittab to autologin on a getty and then setup a .bash_profile or .zprofile (for zsh (what I use)) to xinit your .xinitrc login file. |
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Juippisi
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mreff555 wrote: | As for Slim and XDM, I am very confused about what is what.
When my computer is booting is says " Starting SLiM"
When I want to configure my login manager I do it in /etc/slim.conf
however when I type rc-status there is no slim, only xdm? |
/etc/conf.d/xdm
I'd use compton for transparency. You can start it with autostart/ using openbox-session, or by .xinitrc when using startx. Or you can start it manually while running openbox and it makes terminals that support real transparency transparent immediately. |
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