xfwm4, idesk and xloadimage

[reg]

On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:40:55 +0200
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> xfwm4 doesn't lay any window over the root window. However, when using
> the compositor, the root window is not rendered (just like with
> xcompmgr)
> 


Thank you for your answer...that explains it.

Reg


> HTH
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 14:32 -0400, reg wrote:
> > Will try to make this quick....
> > 
> > Am running XFCE and want desktop icons so I am also running idesk. 
> > 
> > Now no matter what I do, other than killing xfwm4, I cannot set the backgorund to be used on the root window. 
> > 
> > I'm confused....since the idesk icons are visible it does not appear that xfwm4 lays down a window on top of the root window like xfdesktop did (I am not running xfdesktop)...but xloadimage has no effect...actually it does but I must kill xfwm4 in order to see the effect. 
> > 
> > I've seen screenshots of xfce4 using idesk and having both icons and a custom background but just can't quite get it together. 
> > 
> > Anyone?
> >