Thoughts on XFCE 4.3.90: root-tail?

[Fekete Robert]

Hi, just a quick idea, though it may not be feasible at all (I am not a 
developer):
wouldn't it be possible to set the background of xfdesktop's window to 
transparent? That way both the root window and the desktop icons would 
be visible. Or if this is not currently possible, would XGL/compiz be 
able to do it?

Regards,
Robert

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> David F. Skoll wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> It depends on who ends up getting to redraw first, I suppose.  So it
> could be a race condition, so right, this wouldn't really help.
> 
>> Is there a reason xfdesktop makes one big window for itself instead of
>> drawing on the root window directly?
> 
> Ease of implementation is the main reason, but there are probably
> others.  I'm too tired to think of them.  Though that's really
> irrelevant to this problem: we'd run into the exact same issues with
> xfdesktop drawing to the root window and root-tail trying to draw as well.
> 
> It's possible to draw the backdrop image the old way (though I really
> don't want to switch back), which would solve part of your problem, but
> root-tail would still clear and overwrite the desktop icons, which can't
> be done like the backdrop used to be done.  Well, I suppose it could be,
> but it would likely be horribly flickery and slow.
> 
> At any rate, I'm afraid root-tail compatibility is gone.  Sorry.
> 
> 	-brian
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