LinuxQuestions.org - Recent mrxvt versions and backgrounds

I wanted to see if anyone else was having this issue before I considered it a bug. For awhile now, Mrxvt (xterminal, similar to rxvt, aterm and friends) has compiled with background support, but the actual backgrounds don't show up. Transparency is the same. The last working version I have is 0.4.2. I'm not talking about packages or RPM's, but the source as you'd get it here: http://materm.sourceforge.net/wiki/

Currently, 0.4.2 I can recompile and it works as expected, but 0.5.1, no backgrounds, there is only solid black where there should be a pixmap. The image type doesn't matter.

X is XFree86 4.6.0, but I've attempted compiles with prior versions of mrxvt on X.org implementations and had the same result.

A configure command like this should get a debug build with everything relavent enabled. You must set TERMENV in config.h to what you want as the script seems to set "rxvt" when I specify "mrxvt" (providing you do have an entry for an "mrxvt" in terminfo and termcap. You can also make one from the example in the source tarball if you have the "tic" program.)

Code:

 env CFLAGS='-pipe -O2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include' CPPFLAGS='-pipe -O2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include ' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R6/lib ' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-everything --enable-debug --enable-ourstrings --enable-mouseslipwheel --enable-text-shadow --enable-menubar --enable-transparency --enable-xrender --enable-xpm --enable-jpeg --enable-png --enable-xft --enable-xim --enable-utempter --enable-resources --with-termname=mrxvt --with-save-lines=600 --with-terminfo=/usr/share/terminfo --with-x

Running the resulting binary doesn't give much clue in the debug info.

Code:

[ jayjwa@vdrl:~/mrxvt-0.5.1>] src/mrxvt -pixmap /usr/share/pixmaps/winter.xpm



set default locale to en_US

argv[1] = -pixmap: Open X display :0.0

rxvt_get_xdefaults (mrxvt)

rxvt_get_xdefaults (Mrxvt)

rxvt_get_xdefaults (XTerm)

set multichar encoding to noenc

rxvt_set_default_font_x11

rxvt_init_font_x11 

 load font (-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1)

 load mfont (-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1)

Got null root pixmap 0

Create scrollbar

mrxvt: Could not open file default.menu

Creating tabbar

allocate r->tabstop as 80

append_page (NULL, NULL)

last page is 0

Find vterm[0] for pointer vts[0]

Create VT 0 (17x24+560x336)

Unblanking pointer

argv = 0x0

rxvt_control_tty(): pid: 30428, tty fd: 5, dev: /dev/pts/1

rxvt_control_tty(): Voiding tty associations: previous=no

rxvt_control_tty(): /dev/tty has controlling tty? no (good)

rxvt_control_tty(): ioctl(..,TIOCSCTTY): 0

rxvt_control_tty(): do we have controlling tty now: yes (good)

rxvt_control_tty(): tcgetpgrp(): 30428  getpgrp(): 30428

rxvt_privileged_utmp 0 (s); waiting for: s (pid: 30427)

Adjust num_fds to 5

rxvt_scr_reset 0 ()

rxvt_scr_reset 0 () refresh screen

rxvt_scr_alloc 0 ()

rxvt_setTermFontSet()

rxvt_IMInstantiateCallback()

rxvt_IM_get_IC()

rxvt_IM_get_IC() - successful connection

rxvt_IMInstantiateCallback()

Geometry: 577x360+84+107

Size: Not resizing

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