Drop shadows

[sofar]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:42:09 +0200 (CEST), Herve Guillemet <hg at apteryx.fr> wrote:
> On my system (Gentoo AMD64 nvidia XFCE 4.2.3.2), drop shadows do not work
> correctly: if I have a small window on top of a larger one, then click
> on the title bar of the large window to move it on top, the
> small window goes behind but its drop shadow is still visible.
> 
> I guess it's not an XFCE bug, but then it would be nice to desactivate
> the drop shwdows from XFCE, but still keep the transparency. Is this
> possible ?

 $ xfwm4 --help
xfwm4 [--sm-client-id=ID] [--display=DISPLAY] [--compositor=off|on|auto] [--daemon] [--version|-V] [--help|-H]

so yes - just start xfwm4 with --compositor=off, perhaps by modifying your .xinitrc or however you startup xfce.

Auke