Enabling compositing

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

xfwm4 has its own compositong manager and xcompmgr should *not* be used.

The panel transparency doesn't work with xcompmgr, you need xfwm4
compositing for that.

What if you open up a terminal and type:

killall xfwm4 && xfwm4 --compositor=on &

HTH
Olivier.

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:43 +0100, Foxy wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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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