Enabling compositing

[Foxy]

well, it is implemented in some way in xcompmgr I guess. At least in 
Gnome with xcompmgr you have all those things visible. Only the 
background is transparent. It has its ow bugs though. Some icons in the 
notification area still has background.

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>Foxy schreef:
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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. 
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>Why would you expect that? How would the compositor know about this? How 
>do you propose to implement it?
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>>Maybe I have something wrong in my setup or it is 
>>still under development?
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>	Jasper
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