<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 13:46 Ralf Mardorf <<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:25:51 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:.<br>
>6. Rebuild xfwm4 from source<br>
> pro: you get exactly what you want, you may even try git master and<br>
>get OpenGL or XPresent support so it's completely tear-free [2] -<br>
>cons: it's a tad more complicated, you need to install the devel<br>
>packages that don't get installed by default on most distributions.<br>
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Since the OP is an Arch Linux user, this isn't an issue ;).<br>
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>CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DMONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP=1" ./configure --prefix=...<br>
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That's the information the OP needs.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>See also: <a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zQaGY6-x1U0/VVyE2CIUb5I/AAAAAAAAOYg/PuZiRo-PJ98/w956-h248-no/2015-05-20-145219_4160x1080_scrot.png">https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zQaGY6-x1U0/VVyE2CIUb5I/AAAAAAAAOYg/PuZiRo-PJ98/w956-h248-no/2015-05-20-145219_4160x1080_scrot.png</a><br><br><br>-H-</div></div></div>