Latest Fedora Xorg and the compositor

[Nikolas Arend]

Hi there,

this is probably a silly question...
I wanted to give the new compositor a try, so I upgraded my Fedora Core 
2 with the latest development version of xorg (6.8.1) and compiled the 
latest xfwm4 CVS with --enable-compositor. Everything worked fine, my 
xfce4 starts up and of course looks different now: widget shadows, panel 
is translucent, etc. Only everything is _very_ slow (panel unhide, 
window refreshing, workspace cycling, basically everything). Ok, that 
might be due to remaining "imperfections" in both xorg-6.8 and the 
compositor (more likely xorg, I presume). But my actual question: is the 
compositor something that can be tuned in any way, i.e. can I choose 
among any features and change the appearance of the desktop, or does the 
compsitor just give a different, but "static" look? If the first is 
true, how do I configure things? Do have to tune xorg instead?
Forgive my ignorance, I haven't had time to get into this whole 
composite thing.

Nick.