Xfwm4 / compositor: gray background

[Johannes Lips]

On 20.05.2015 15:00, Harold Aling wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 13:46 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net 
> <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:25:51 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:.
>     >6. Rebuild xfwm4 from source
>     >   pro: you get exactly what you want, you may even try git
>     master and
>     >get OpenGL or XPresent support so it's completely tear-free [2] -
>     >cons: it's a tad more complicated, you need to install the devel
>     >packages that don't get installed by default on most distributions.
>
>     Since the OP is an Arch Linux user, this isn't an issue ;).
>
>     >CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DMONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP=1" ./configure --prefix=...
>
>     That's the information the OP needs.
>
>
> I've built Xfwm4 using the PKGBUILD from the official Arch Xfwm4 
> PKGBUILD, with the added CFLAGS="...". I then removed and killed 
> Xfdesktop and killed Xfwm4, so it would get reloaded by Xfsession.
>
> The result is that Xfwm4 does show the background image with the 
> compositor enabled! ... but dragging a window accross it wipes the 
> image to replace it with the gray background I don't really like.
>
> See also: 
> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zQaGY6-x1U0/VVyE2CIUb5I/AAAAAAAAOYg/PuZiRo-PJ98/w956-h248-no/2015-05-20-145219_4160x1080_scrot.png
So that's really worth the effort to get rid of xfdesktop?
If you would just keep using it, I bet it would cost you less time and 
effort.

Just my 2cts
Johannes

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