Workspace switching shows wallpaper

[allusive-dev]

Workspace switching shows wallpaper

[allusive-dev]

@Odeni
Can you please attach a video this happening as I am not sure what you mean.

[Odeni]

Old problem. Video can be seen here:
yshui/picom#16 (comment)

[allusive-dev]

Hm. This is kind of difficult because that is how it is meant to work. When you switch to a new workspace the current windows fade/animate out and the new windows fade/animate in, so whatever is behind them is briefly visible.
The only way to fix that is to disable fading.
Like you said though making it #000 would break how animations are supposed to come in when opened/become visible when switching between workspaces.

[allusive-dev]

@Odeni
It looks like somebody solved the issue by using these configuration options.

fading = true;
fade-in-step = 1;
fade-out-step = 1;
fade-delta = 50;

[Odeni]

This basically disables fading. My solution so far was to not use a wallpaper.

[allusive-dev]

@Odeni
I'm a bit confused then because, what you are describing to me is the purpose of fading, but you don't want to disable it?
I don't think there is a way to "fix" this besides disabling fading. There is not a lot I can really do to picom to change what is happening at this stage unfortunately. I'm quite sorry about it.

[allusive-dev]

@Odeni
You could try using this option.

no-fading-openclose = true;

[Odeni]

It should be fading from what is showing on one workspace to what is showing on second. If I can't see the wallpaper on either workspace, picom should not show it. It's probably impossible to fix or someone would have done it already.

[allusive-dev]

It's probably impossible to fix or someone would have done it already.

I think you might be right, I understand what you mean now about fading between windows instead of fading out then in but personally I would not know how to do that. (Also it would break animations since they would collide).

[Odeni]

Alright, thanks for looking into it.

[allusive-dev]

No problem. I am sorry I couldn't be more helpful.