Enabling compositing

Jari Rahkonen jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi
Tue Oct 11 08:04:23 CEST 2005


Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:27 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:03 +0100, Foxy wrote:
>>
>>> I will try to recompile xfwm4 using a daily snapshot rather than svn...
>>
>> Makes no difference, compositing has been in xfwm4 for months now.
>>
>> Better check the configure log instead.
>
>
> More precisely, this what you should get:
>
> [...]
> checking for xrender... yes
> checking RENDER_CFLAGS... -I/usr/X11R6/include
> checking RENDER_LIBS... -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXrender -lX11 -lXext
> checking for XRRUpdateConfiguration in -lXrandr... yes
> checking for X11/extensions/Xrandr.h... yes
> checking for xcomposite >= 0.2 xfixes xdamage... yes
> checking COMPOSITOR_CFLAGS... -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API
> -I/usr/X11R6/include
> checking COMPOSITOR_LIBS... -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXcomposite -lXdamage -
> lXfixes -lX11
> [...]


Which means that depending on your distro you might have to install
separate dev packages for libxcomposite, libxdamage and libxfixes.
Better get the one for libxrender too.

>
> HTH
> Olivier.


- Jari



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