Programs using X freeze while switching windows

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 22:51, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On the other hand... Xfwm is using its own compositor?

Yes.

> (Who knew?)

Sorry, that was widely discussedon the dev list (and I don't check the
ML when replying quickly). Apologies.

I've been working very hard for a month now on this, to make it in 4.2,
so I'm a bit "sensitive" on the compositor :)

>   How do I get to it? 

If you have the CVS up to date (which appears you have), then you have
it. 

Just add "--enable-compositor" from the ./configure line

>  I don't see any commands to activate it (using today's
> CVS), nor have come across any documentation of such a feature.

compositor can be disabled from command line if needed
(--disable-compositor), but it must be enabled at compile time (it's
fairly new feature, safer to keep it disabled)

See the COMPOSITOR file from the source tree for more details.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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