FC6 unwanted transparency

[f3d0ram0nk3y]

Fresh install of FC6. Got everything working to my liking except for one thing: some applications are coming up with transparent windows when they shouldn't.

For example, when I launch tsclient to connect to a remote desktop, the entire remote desktop window is transparent, and almost unusable no matter how much I adjust the transparency level up or down. Same thing happens when I try to use the java based Oracle SQL Developer.

I've searched but I can't find any settings to control this behavior other than turning desktop effects on and off.

Any ideas?

[f3d0ram0nk3y]

*bump*

I've searched bugzilla, but haven't seen anything related to this.

Anyone got ay ideas?

[Dan]

Just a wild arsed guess, but I think Compiz semi-transparents applications that have been temporarily backgrounded.

[f3d0ram0nk3y]

This is happening whether the app is in the foreground or bakground. Even if no other apps are open.

[f3d0ram0nk3y]

Found a workaround for this:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 causes the window to render properly, so I created a script to export this setting before launching tsclient, like so:


#!/bin/bash
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
tsclient

then I modified the launcher to point to the script instead of the tsclient binary.

A similar mehod did not resolve the issue with sqldeveloper, so I suspect the issues are not related. I'll post back if I find more.

[f3d0ram0nk3y]

So it turns out that Java and Compiz have their own issues. I've found that setting the following environment variable resolves the issue with java apps.:

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit


So I created a script with the following and point to that to launch SQLDeveloper:

#!/bin/bash
export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
sqldeveloper