Drop shadows

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:36:29 -0400
"Andrew Conkling" <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Well, you can do this with the window manager tweak utility in the
settings dialog. But this is not available in any 4.2 release.

- Jannis
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