Xfwm4 / compositor: gray background

[Olivier Fourdan]

On 20 May 2015 at 15:00, Harold Aling <xfce at sait.nl> wrote:
> 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

Well, it means you failed at rebuilding xfwm4 with MONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP
enabled or you are not using the version with MONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP
enabled.

Either way, you missed something.

Cheers,
Olivier