Feature request: transparen menu and non-active window only

Erik Bourget erik at ebourget.net
Tue Nov 30 04:59:04 CET 2004


Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org> writes:

> Erik Bourget wrote:
>> Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> writes:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>xcompmgr is a separate program, it's a compositing manager, while Xfce
>>>has its own compositing manager embedded in the window manager. You
>>>can't run two compositing manager at the same time.
>>>
>>>Regarding transparency, there are quite a few glitches with the
>>>composite extension, that's why I did make too much use of transparency
>>>(speed is definitely another reason)
>> It's worth noting that I keep trying to send a patch to the list that
>> implements transparency on move but it never gets through for some reason.
>> My other text-only one did so we'll see if this does, I guess ...
>
> You might try mailing it to Olivier directly.

Sure, will do.  Do you have any idea why my messages were filtered out?  The
patches were added as attachments, could that have been it?  The only other
thing I can think of is that they both had the word "patch" in the subject
line, do we not accept those? :)

- Erik





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