Programs using X freeze while switching windows

[Andrew Conkling]

Some time ago (probably on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:58:30 +0200)
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> had occasion to say the following:
> 
> > (Who knew?)
> 
> Sorry, that was widely discussedon the dev list (and I don't check the
> ML when replying quickly). Apologies.

No worries, I meant that as a whimsical "wow". :)
> 
> 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 :)

Very cool; thanks for your efforts!
> 
> 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.

OK, since I'm using a Gentoo ebuild for my xfce-cvs packages, I'll have
to contact the person who made them to update those.  Thanks for
pointing me to the specific file.