Nothing seems to happen on the GNOME 42 desktop

[johnblommers]

Even with disabling GNOME extensions, running lwp produces no parallax effect or any effect. It emits no messages. The installation process went smoothly and without incident or error.

I do have a wallpaper of my own set.

My system is PopOS 22.04 with the GNOME desktop. It's an Ubuntu derivative. The CPU/GPU is AMD Ryzen 5 2550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx graphics.

Is lwp intended for more basic desktop environment perhaps?

Update. It seems so. When I login with the fvwm desktop environment lwp works exactly as intended. Other than the mouse disappearing when its not inside another application window.

[CraigglesO]

I am also using GNOME 42 via the latest ubuntu and my screen lags, but nothing else happens... AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU (1080Ti)

[jszczerbinsky]

I'm not sure why wallpaper doesn't work, but I think GNOME might override the root window. Try fully disabling the wallpaper in GNOME.

Mouse cursor bug can be easly fixed by using xsetroot after running lwp

[johnblommers]

I'm pretty sure GNOME takes over the root window. I've tried using the dconf editor to delete the wallpaper but the background just turns black. lwp is no more able to impact the background than xsetroot unfortunately.

At this juncture I've not found a way around this problem with GNOME.

[hoellwerth]

Same problem here, would appreciate a solution!

[hoellwerth]

Any updates, or an idea on how to fix it temporarily?

[jszczerbinsky]

I think I found a solution. I've made some changes, tested lwp with picom compositor and then with GNOME and it works fine.
New release is comming and it will have this fixed. I'm closing this issue, but in case of any related problems, just reopen it.

[jszczerbinsky]

To make lwp run with a compositor or GNOME, You just have to set reload_rootwindow=1 in the config file