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I use Ubuntu Natty, urxvt (with 256 colours), and Imagemagick (display -window root [...]) to set the root window to a picture. When I use the transparancy (-tr) option on urxvt, I get the Ubuntu X login screen background (The pink/purple one) and not the image that is currently on the root window. See picture at the bottom.

Note that the same problem exists if I run gnome-terminal and set its transparency.

I suspect that imagemagick is not drawing on the right X11 layer but I (and google) cannot figure out what the right option is.

Could the problem be with either the xorg configuration or with window composition?

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fake transparency {i.e. cropping the root image} is turned on with: +tr {and e.g.: -sh 20} -tr turns off fake transparency this is probably what youre doing, and probably not what you want to do

real transparency {i.e.: with a compositor} is done simply by setting the alpha of the window e.g.: xcompmgr or compiz or whatevs urxvt -bg rgba:2000/2000/2000/dddd

see if xcompmgr and transset can do it for you; if not, nothing will likely work until you get that working

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I ended up re-sizing the images using convert into another directory and then using feh to display them. Ugly but works.

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