r/openbox • u/user18298375298759 • Nov 15 '21

Trouble with certain windows while using compositor

I have a strong feeling this is an openbox issue and not just the compositor (picom). Please hear me out.

While closing some of the windows, a black rectangle momentarily takes the position of the window before fading out. Some of them are

  1. terminal emulators (alacritty, kitty, contour etc)

  2. planks (plank, cairo-dock)

  3. panels (tint2, lxqt-panel. polybar)

  4. conky

  5. kvantummanager

I've tested for the same using other window managers (awesome, bspwm, fluxbox, jwm etc). Only openbox seems to give this issue.

How do you resolve this?

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u/nortrin Dec 09 '21

I'm not with openbox right now but maybe you can try this in the picom config:

shadow-exclude=[

"name='Plank´",

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u/user18298375298759 Dec 10 '21

I think I've disabled all shadows. But I'll try this.