Openbox & Conky: Problems achieving partial transparency

Hi there everyone!

I've installed Openbox on an Ubu 12.10 minimal install. I've also installed xcompmgr and conky. The issue I'm having is that the very same conky config that gives me partial transparency in #!(Debian based Openbox distro) is only giving me full transparency in my Ubu install.

I installed xcompmgr and am starting it with the following options:

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xcompmgr -cfF -t-9 -l-11 -r9 -o.95 -D6 &

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And here's my conky:

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background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 150
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
# default_color 808080
default_color ff8000
default_shade_color 000000
default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_right
gap_x 8
gap_y 40
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
maximum_width 200
minimum_size 200 965
##############################################
# Output
##############################################
.... stuff....

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I've tried swapping some options but nothing seems to allow own_window_argb_value to set a partial transparency.

Does anyone have any idea what I might be able to do to get it?

Thanks for your time!

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Originally Posted by schwim

Hi there everyone!

I've installed Openbox on an Ubu 12.10 minimal install. I've also installed xcompmgr and conky. The issue I'm having is that the very same conky config that gives me partial transparency in #!(Debian based Openbox distro) is only giving me full transparency in my Ubu install.

I installed xcompmgr and am starting it with the following options:



And here's my conky:



I've tried swapping some options but nothing seems to allow own_window_argb_value to set a partial transparency.

Does anyone have any idea what I might be able to do to get it?

Thanks for your time!

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You have this:

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own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 150
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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Did you try this:

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own_window yes
own_window_transparent no #yes
own_window_type normal #desktop
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 150
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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Since xcomp manager is looking after transparency - set "own_window_transparent no" in conky and let the argbs setting and composite manager do it's thing.
That "should" do it.

On a side note I dropped xcomp for compton - but I'm using VSIDO (Debian SID) with OpenBox