Enabling compositing

[Foxy]

I just thought that transparency would make sense if all the buttons and 
plugins remain visible. It usually makes them cool hovering in the air. 
I use a desklet for a tool bar to achieve this effect. Making all the 
buttons and plugins invisible does not make any sense for me. I mean it 
is the same thing like auto-hide. For example if one has a clock on the 
panel it would be nice to have it visible all the time. And all things 
like weather monitor, battery and so on. You need them visible all the 
time as well.


Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>
>>>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:
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>>>>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:
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>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Better check the configure log instead.
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>>>>>>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
>>>>>>[...]
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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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>>>>>>            
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>>>>>- Jari
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