xfce4-session incompatible with compositor

[Olivier Fourdan]

Brian,

It does rendering off screen and copy regions back to screen when
required.

I'll look into it (like adding damage to the root win, dunno if that
would work, but it's worth trying at least)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 23:46, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> olivier,
> 
> this reminds me of something i want to ask you.  i was messing around 
> with xcompmgr, and it seems like it actually draws stuff on top of the 
> (real) root window, and totally ignores anything that happens to the 
> root window.  my brilliant plan to make stuff like xplanet work was to 
> make xfdesktop's virtual root window transparent, and just draw 
> everything on the root window.  but it doesn't seem to work; i get this 
> weird ghosted image shown though xfdesktop's transparent window.  any ideas?
> 
>     -brian
> 
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> >Hi Benny,
> >
> >I've done the compositor in xfwm4 and it's working fairly well... except
> >with the xfce4-session manager.
> >
> >Xfce4-session grabs the display to prevent any user/app interaction, and
> >display the dialog while the screen is grabbed.
> >
> >Unfortunately, that can't work because the compositor can't access the
> >scrreen, so the dialog is no rendered on screen...
> >
> >That particular design won't work with any compositor manager, not just
> >xfwm4's compositor.
> >
> >The solution (which would be much better IMO) would be to do just like
> >you did with the splash screen, ie map an override redirect on top all
> >all windows. The compositor doenst' prevent grabbing the keyboard and
> >mouse, off course.
> >
> >What do you think?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Olivier.
> >  
> >
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