Thoughts on XFCE 4.3.90: root-tail?

[David F. Skoll]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Yeah, I was afraid something like that might happen, though I'm
> surprised it blanks out the window.

:-(

> Xfdesktop does definitely draw on
> its window much differently than it did before, so it's possible it
> won't work anymore.  It should be possible to hack root-tail to not
> clear its window.  Though that wouldn't work either.  What it really
> needs to do is send expose events to the window every time it blanks
> regions, which I guess it isn't doing.

But if it did that, wouldn't xfdesktop get rid of the root-tail text
as it redrew itself?

Is there a reason xfdesktop makes one big window for itself instead of
drawing on the root window directly?

Regards,

David.