I had asked this question over at ask.ubuntu as well and I figured it out. Here is what I posted over there: I figured it out. Thanks to this thread
I made some changes to the window parameters they are now:
own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below
own_window_type was override and I added the own_window_arb_visual yes parameter
Hope this helps anyone else out