Picom not opening properly

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Sorry for bugging you guys , but the blur agent picom is not working

[ 18/12/21 19:39:33.452 wid_set_text_prop ERROR ] Failed to make text property: vgit-dac85.

[ 18/12/21 19:39:33.452 register_cm ERROR ] Failed to set COMPTON_VERSION.

this errors are coming

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.8-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=815f2f32-74b8-4d03-b441-dc420f70dfcf rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: i3 4.20.1 info: polybar vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook 14_ASUS Laptop X407UAR v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X407UAR v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: X407UAR.304 date: 06/05/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.8 Wh (99.2%) condition: 25.0/33.3 Wh (75.1%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 11.1 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: Not charging cycles: 32
Memory:
  RAM: total: 11.58 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (18.2%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i3-7020U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Amber/Kaby Lake
    note: check family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xEA
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 700 min/max: 400/2300 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 700 2: 700 3: 700 4: 700 bogomips: 18406
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
    art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
    cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
    f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
    hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
    mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
    pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti
    pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2
    sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
    tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
    xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:5921 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5a11 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8")
    diag: 354mm (13.9")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.8-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 168c:0036 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:5
    chip-ID: 13d3:3490 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: not found
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 43.95 GiB (4.7%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0J scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
    used: 43.95 GiB (4.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: 815f2f32-74b8-4d03-b441-dc420f70dfcf
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 24F2-00E6
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-6:2 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 13d3:5a11 class-ID: 0e02
  Device-2: 1-8:5 info: IMC Networks type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 13d3:3490
    class-ID: e001
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C pch: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
  Processes: 197 Uptime: 33m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: apt: 0 pacman: 1156 lib: 298 Shell: fish
  v: 3.3.1 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.11
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Instead of apologies, share the information about your system and the errors from terminal as formatted text. See here [HowTo] Provide System Information

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I tried my best and gave a formatted version. thanks for the tip

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See if by reinstalling this with
pamac install libx11 lib32-libx11
and rebooting the system, you still get the errors.

Also, you might have got into the same issue as described here

even tho, you should not … What version of picom/comton are you using?

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I am using 8.2-1

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Thats not a formatted version … thats some output like from screenfetch, and not the same as the command for information shown in the guide.

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Thanks for the info. I think this is the info you like to have. I didn’t knew that bullet pointers open :sweat_smile:

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I already have this libraries

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This line should include compositor, such as mine:

Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu

So you seem to not have one right now.

I guess I would also mention

Seems odd to me.
Maybe it is legacy code … but Picom is the successor to Compton, which doesnt really exist any more.

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ok i removed compton.conf which seemed to have fixed the error. Also do you have any guides for managing blur with picom , just running picom -b doesn’t seemed to do anything :sweat_smile:

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man picom

is probably a good start … its also notable that most things from compton work in picom … just rebranded.
(for example, it should be picom.conf)

For more info see these:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Picom

https://man.archlinux.org/man/picom.1#CONFIGURATION_FILES

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nevermind it is coming back :frowning_face:

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The same error? Why/how?
Do you have picom.conf and/or compton.conf? What is in it?
(also lets see on the far flung chance you actually have compton installed … pacman -Qs compton)

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local/picom 8.2-1
    X compositor that may fix tearing issues

This is the output for that command

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Great. just picom installed.
Now … what about the conf’s ?

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I deleted the compton.conf earlier
this is my picon.conf
https://www.logpasta.com/paste/701c231f-e134-4155-aaca-f341ff0ce5c8

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Please remove that and replace it with the one from /etc/xdg/picom.conf And edit that.
You can keep your previous one for reference if you like …

mv ~/.config/picom.conf ~/.config/picom.conf.bak
cp /etc/xdg/picom.conf ~/.config/

(IDK if your is in .config or .config/picom/ … augment above as necessary)

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Still not working , but blur was working on kde , i really don’t understand what’s the problem here

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What do you mean not working?
You have errors?
Or just that the effects (blur) are not working as you like?

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Same errors coming , i even deleted the config reinstalled picom