get rid of the awful window corners in xfwm4

Ondrej Mihalyi mihalyi at matfyz.cz
Tue Apr 13 07:32:55 CEST 2004


Thanks for advice,

this one helped.  I tried to eliminate unnecessary Xserver modules to increase start up speed not knowing what they're for, and up to now I didn't have time to find out.  I'll have to fidn some time to learn about the modules

Thanks a lot once more



On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:02:12 +0200
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> That's not a bug in xfce, you're missing the XShape extension in your X
> server. 
> 
> Make sure you load the "extmod" module in your /etc/X11/XF86Config :
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "glx"
> EndSection
>                                                                                 Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 10:27, Ondrej Mihalyi wrote:
> > I mean those little squares in bottom left and right corner, which cover a part of the window, which is like a letter, but it is awful, when I cant' read that letter when using xterm
> > 
> > These squares are not changed whatever theme I use - it doesn't have anything to do with the window border, which is actually ok - at least it doesn't cover the what is inside the window, apart from those squares in both bottom corners.
> > 
> > I believe it's only my problem using old version of xfwm4, because I don't see these squares on the screenshots at www.xfce.org
> > 
> > have a look:
> > 
> > http://www.kolej.mff.cuni.cz/~mihao2am/test.png
> > 
> > look at the left and right bottom corner
> > 
> > On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 03:49:35 -0400
> > Andrew Conkling <andrewski at fr.st> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:44 +0200, Ondrej Mihalyi wrote:
> > > > can anyone tell me, if I can change the awful bottom corners that xf window 
> > > > manager creates, taking much of my precious space and covering part of real 
> > > > window having no reason to do it?
> > > > 
> > > > If I didn't express myself clearly, I mean those squares in the bottom 
> > > > corners of the window which window manager produces.  I don't like it 
> > > > especially when using xterm, because then I often can't read, what's below 
> > > > the dark corners.
> > > 
> > > Do you mean the window manager's theme's borders?  If so, you could
> > > change to a different theme with less 'fluff' around the window (I
> > > really like smallscreen).  If not, sorry, but I don't understand your
> > > question.
> > > 
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