Why am I having ghosting and tearing with the i3 window manager paired with xcompgmr when tiling terminals vertically? I'm using the _i3_ tiling window manager. As it doesn't do compositing, I've enabled the `xcompmgr` compositor in my _~/.i3/config_ file as well as `feh` to display a wallpaper: exec --no-startup-id xcompmgr -c -C -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 exec feh --bg-scale ~/Downloads/Arch-Linux-Bluewave.jpg Now `lxterminal` supports translucency etc. but when I arrange my terminals vertically, some **ghosting** , tearing and decoration artifacts from other workspaces appear to the top right - and disappear as soon as the window is tiled horizontally. Furthermore, when `transmission-gtk` "floats" a dialog box, moving that box around leaves ghosting in the form of tiny horizontal lines which remain until some refresh. Is there any workaround?

The symptoms arise from _two_ distinct issues here:

1. The _compositor_ : use something more recent like Compton in this case, with the following last options if supported by your hardware:

exec --no-startup-id compton -cCGb --backend glx --vsync opengl


2. The fact that compositors are _not officially supported_ by this window manager and because of the way i3 renders window title bars. A well-known workaround is to disable such title bars by adding to `~/.i3/config`:

new_window pixel





To move around a floating window with no titlebar, use `mod+drag` anywhere on it. Finally, some of this may change over time.