Open aejenk opened 6 years ago
Something to note : The problem only arises in bspwm
I'm having just this same issue.
I'm having the exact same issue, its not only in bspwm. I'm using Arch in a VirtualBox with KDE and i3. I've tried the pacman package and the compton-git package from the aur. I've tried both xrender and glx backends and neither make a difference. I've also tried deleting my config file entirely to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong with it.
When I run the command compton &
I get the following error once:
x_create_picture_with_pictfmt_and_pixmap(): failed to create picture
followed by this error repeating:
[ 19.448696 ] error 143 XCB_RENDER_PICTURE request 139 minor 8 serial 2074: "143"
I had the same error with compton, picom and xcompmgr. What fixed it was setting the background using: feh --bg-scale myimg.png
.
Platform: Kubuntu 18.04 64-bit
GPU, drivers, and screen setup: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Single screen on laptop
Compton version: Current version from repository [Unsure what version this is]
Compton configuration: https://pastebin.com/ekAha6Hs
Steps of reproduction
All I've done to produce error is to build compton from the current repository and then run it. Installing it via
apt-get
produces the same error.Expected behavior
For the background of a current program [
polybar
] to be transparent.Current Behavior & Other details
Background turns completely dark, items persist in the background, things fade out slowly, terminal used to launch compton starts rapidfiring multiple errors such as this: