Enabling compositing

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

Clearly, if you set the panel to be totally transparent, it will be
totally transparent. So I would vote for a problem with your setup :)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:08 +0100, Foxy wrote:
> thanks a lot, it works now. However I am slightly disappointed with the 
> results. Actually I expected that only the actual panel becomes 
> transparent, while all the launchers, icons  and plugins will stay 
> visible. But in my case the panel is totally invisible if you do not 
> hover mouse over it. Maybe I have something wrong in my setup or it is 
> still under development?
> 
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> >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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