Drop shadows

Andrew Conkling andrew.conkling at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 19:36:29 CEST 2006


On 4/3/06, sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> 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.

No; Herve still wants transparency.  AFAIK, there's no way to do this,
but if it were possible, it'd most likely be done in xfwm4rc.


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