i3 picom video background displays default picture instead

altruios commented 3 years ago

Platform

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 Kernel: 5.10.56-1-MANJARO Uptime: 2 hours, 6 mins Packages: 1169 (pacman) Shell: bash 5.1.8 Resolution: 3840x2160, 1080x1920 WM: i3 CPU: Intel i7-6800K (12) @ 3.800GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A

GPU, drivers, and screen setup

name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info): Dedicated video memory: 11264 MB Total available memory: 11264 MB Currently available dedicated video memory: 10258 MB OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.57.02 OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL profile mask: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 470.57.02 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

Environment

using i3 and mplayer to render some mp4 videos in the background

picom version

Diagnostics

vgit-dac85 **Version:** vgit-dac85 ### Extensions: * Shape: Yes * XRandR: Yes * Present: Present ### Misc: * Use Overlay: Yes* Config file used: /home/altruios/.config/picom/picom.conf ### Drivers (inaccurate): NVIDIA

Configuration:

Configuration file

``` // Paste your configuration here ``` only changes were opacity down from 1.0 to .95 on active windows

Steps of reproduction

I'm running the following script to display a movie as the desktop.

#!/bin/bash
mplayer  -loop 0 -rootwin -ao null -vo x11 -noconsolecontrols /home/user/video.mp4

this runs fine on my 2 monitor setup (it plays in one window)

however problems happen with i start picom with this script running

Expected behavior

video is visible behind windows

Current Behavior

a default wallpaper is shown instead

Stack trace

Other details

is there a better way to have an animated wallpaper with mp4 or gif that would work with picom?

tryone144 commented 3 years ago

If I understand correctly, this is not directly possible due to the nature of a compositor. (Both applications would race about drawing to the root window.) See https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/253, https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/226 for a more in depth explanation and possible workaround using xwinwrap (ArchWiki). You can try if the following works:

$ xwinwrap -ov -fs -- mplayer -wid WID -loop 0 -ao null -vo x11 -noconsolecontrols /home/user/video.mp4

altruios commented 3 years ago

Fantastic! Thank you for the info: Will look into it: it’s a deep dive but eventually I just want to get a shader running as the background, and have pic on work on top of it... when I get something working I’ll get a how-to guide out there and hopefully it would be too much of a headache :)

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On Aug 16, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Bernd Busse @.***> wrote:

If I understand correctly, this is not directly possible due to the nature of a compositor. (Both applications would race about drawing to the root window.) See chjj/compton#253, chjj/compton#226 for a more in depth explanation and possible workaround using xwinwrap (ArchWiki). You can try if the following works:

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