Xfwm4 / compositor: gray background

[Olivier Fourdan]

Because Compton is a different implementation, it's a standalone
compositor and therefore should work in different configuration.

xfwm4, on the oppotite, is a window manager with an embeded compositor
for xfce, and xfce has xfdesktop, so there is no point in monitoring
the root pixmap because you will never see the root window with
xfdesktop.

As I said, you can enable that in xfwm4, it's just that you have to do
that on your own by rebuilding xfwm4.

Otherwise, if you are not interesting in neither the desktop icons nor
the apps icons, then just select "None" in xfdeskto psettings and you
will get exactly what you want.

Cheers,
Olivier

On 20 May 2015 at 11:12, Harold Aling <xfce at sait.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2015 at 11:24 Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> By default, the window manager does not monitor root pixmap and uses a
>> sloid gray background.
>>
>> If you want a wallaper, you'll need to run xfdesktop or disable the
>> compositor (or rebuild xfwm4 with root pixmap support but that's
>> discouraged).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Olivier
>
>
> Ok, forgive my ignorance; why does Compton display my (neat) wallpaper
> correctly then?
>
> I have no interest in icons, menu or other things on my desktop. I just want
> something else than a black background that I can paint dull gray by
> dragging a window accross it.
>
>
> -H-
>
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