[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#848107: transparent backgrounds stopped working

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.22-1+b1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I've been using urxvt for a long time, with the following in xrdb:

wouter at gangtai:~$ xrdb -q
*customization:	-color
URxvt*background:	black
URxvt*foreground:	white
URxvt*scrollBar:	false
URxvt*shading:	40
URxvt*transparent:	true

this used to give me a semi-transparent background. However, since a few
days, this has stopped working. I'm not sure what exactly has caused the
change, though.

Seen as how there hasn't been a change to urxvt in months, I suspect
it's one of the dependencies or one of the X libraries that's really
broken. However, since I have no clue how urxvt implements transparent
backgrounds, I thought I'd file the bug against this package, so you can
help me figure out where the bug really lives ;-)

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, m68k, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.42
ii  libc6                     2.24-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.7
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.2.1-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.50.2-2
ii  libperl5.24               5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-2
ii  libxft2                   2.3.2-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  ncurses-base              6.0+20161126-1

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode recommends:
ii  fonts-dejavu                                    2.37-1
ii  fonts-ipaexfont-gothic [fonts-japanese-gothic]  00301-3
ii  fonts-ipafont-gothic [fonts-japanese-gothic]    00303-16
ii  fonts-mona [fonts-japanese-gothic]              1:2.90-1
ii  fonts-takao-gothic [fonts-japanese-gothic]      00303.01-1
ii  fonts-vlgothic [fonts-japanese-gothic]          20141206-3

rxvt-unicode suggests no packages.

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