tryone144
commented
4 years ago According to the README.md here at this fork,
dual_kawaseblur "only works with--experimental-backendsand--backend glx". However, with glx set either at runtime through--backendor in thepicom.confconfig file, there is zero blur. Transparency still works, so picom itself does in fact launch, but there's no blur whatsoever.
dual_kawase is only implemented for the experimental glx backend, as in "it only works with --experimental-backends AND --backend glx" (logical and, i.e. you need both :wink:).
If --log-level is set to WARN or below, you could see the warning "Old backends only support blur method 'kernel'. Your blur setting will not be applied".
With
--experimental-backends,dual_kawaseDOES in fact "work," but there are so many glitches and artifacts and just plain ugliness, that it's unusable. Here are a couple examples, one is of a terminal, and another is of this very window I'm currently typing in:[snip]
Pretty much every window that doesn't have focus looks like this, and I've tried killing and restarting it multiple times.
These screenshots look terrible, there is clearly something wrong. Could you please test the experimental backends with a minimal config (no blur) to help isolate the issue?
$ picom --config /dev/null --experimental-backends --backend xrender
$ picom --config /dev/null --experimental-backends --backend glx
gardotd426
zorjo
Platform: ArcoLinuxB 20.4.10
GPU, drivers, and screen setup: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT, rounded corners fork of i3wm, dual monitors set up with xrandr.
Compton version: vgit-c67d7
Compton configuration: https://pastebin.com/MWthVngz
Steps of reproduction
In i3, try using
dual_kawaseblur withglxbackend.Expected behavior
According to the README.md here at this fork,
dual_kawaseblur "only works with--experimental-backendsand--backend glx". However, with glx set either at runtime through--backendor in thepicom.confconfig file, there is zero blur. Transparency still works, so picom itself does in fact launch, but there's no blur whatsoever.Current Behavior & Other details
With
--experimental-backends,dual_kawaseDOES in fact "work," but there are so many glitches and artifacts and just plain ugliness, that it's unusable. Here are a couple examples, one is of a terminal, and another is of this very window I'm currently typing in:Pretty much every window that doesn't have focus looks like this, and I've tried killing and restarting it multiple times. So I wanted to try glx as the backend to see if that helped. The glitches go away, but there's zero blur.