Disabling Shadows But Keeping Transparency?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Kristy Christie wrote:

> I've already googled on the topic but can't seem to find a way to keep 
> xfce 4.2's
> panel & windows transparent but to disable the shadows that appear around
> the window border.

Unfortunately, you can't.

> I'm hoping someone can help me out with this.. just a suggestion, it 
> would be
> great if these features could be controlled from xfce's Settings 
> Manager (especially
> since xfce has it's own compositor and isn't just using xcompmgr).

The compositor is relatively beta - where 4.2 is concerned it's more of 
a "technology preview" than anything else.  I'm sure it'll be a bit more 
tweakable in 4.4.

    -b