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Alish
Asked: 2020-01-04 09:02:58 +0800 CST

freecad window gets transparent

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Recently, my freecad encountered with a strange problem of being transparent. When I open it, there is no problem (image). But when I select to go to a specific workplace, say part, the window gets transparent, so that my desktop is visible on freecad backside(This is my desktop and this is freecad window).
I have removed and re-installed it but the problem persists. I also have to mention it is not a matter of opacity that can be controlled from teminal by something like: sh -c 'xprop...

command-line transparency cad 18.04 free-software

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  1. Best Answer

    Finally, I solved the problem. It was related to ANSYS installation. It was noticed that if you have transparency issues in CFX pre/post or turbogrid, add this to ~/.bashrc:

    export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

    It solved the problem both in ANSYS and freeCad.

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