Enabling compositing

[Foxy]

How can I test is compositing works or not? I tied xcompmgr and it 
produces shadows and fading, however it doe not make the panel 
transparent. I wonder if the compositing is running but something wrong 
with the panel?

Jari Rahkonen wrote:

>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:27 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:03 +0100, Foxy wrote:
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>>>>I will try to recompile xfwm4 using a daily snapshot rather than svn...
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>>>Makes no difference, compositing has been in xfwm4 for months now.
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>>>Better check the configure log instead.
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>>More precisely, this what you should get:
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>>[...]
>>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
>>[...]
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>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.
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>>HTH
>>Olivier.
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>- Jari
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