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jaelpark / chamferwm

A tiling X11 window manager with Vulkan compositor.
https://jaelpark.github.io/chamferwm-docs/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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White screen #11

Closed X52p closed 3 years ago

X52p commented 4 years ago

I installed chamferWM via AUR. When using the following command in xinit.rc:

exec chamfer --config=/usr/share/chamfer/config/config.py --shader-path=/usr/share/chamfer/shaders/

I only get a blank white screen.

I also tried: exec stdbuf -oL chamfer --shader-path=/usr/share/chamfer/shaders/ > /tmp/log but the log does not contain any errors

jaelpark commented 4 years ago

The background will be blank white by default if no wallpaper or other color is set. Are you able to get any response to you input? If you configure your default terminal emulator or browser for instance, you should be able to see the applications get launched when you press mod+Enter or Super+1, respectively.

X52p commented 4 years ago

I can't open the terminal, or any other Programm. (edit: the Mouse Cursor is visible)

jaelpark commented 4 years ago

Can you test the window manager without compositor? If you use exec chamfer --config=/usr/share/chamfer/config/config.py -n instead, is it possible to launch applications?

One should also try if the compositor has the basic capacity to work as expected. In your regular WM/DE, you could run chamfer -d --config=/usr/share/chamfer/config/config.py --shader-path=/usr/share/chamfer/shaders/ Here -d creates a test environment for the compositor in a regular window while running in another WM/DE. Once running, does Shift+Space have any effect? It should create a frame inside this window.

dedguy21 commented 4 years ago

The above instructions worked inside awesome.wm thank you.

dedguy21 commented 4 years ago

We should probably close this as the above solution worked