Widget background shows my desktop background

berlam / awesome-switcher

Switch clients in Awesome WM with the familiar preview functionality

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Widget background shows my desktop background #12

Closed p-himik closed 6 years ago

p-himik commented 6 years ago

awesome v4.2-289-g98e5922 Ubuntu 18.04

With the default settings, the switcher looks like this on my machine:

Is it intentional? If so, is there a way to make it a solid color?

psliwka commented 6 years ago

My guess is that it's looking that way because you don't have any X compositor running, so Awesome is forced to use fake transparency tricks. Try running Compton or something.

p-himik commented 6 years ago

Not sure I follow. What transparency? Isn't the background supposed to be opaque? Or you mean client preview transparency, and that it somehow influences the main widget background?

Update: it does indeed work with Compton.

p-himik commented 6 years ago

Ah, sorry, I'm blind - I just noticed that preview_box_bg is RGBA and not RGB. I'm just not used to seeing RGBA in this notation.