Enabling compositing

Foxy foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Tue Oct 11 23:28:58 CEST 2005


thanks a lot guys for clearing it up...

Anyway, the forthcoming xfce is awesome and even svn version does not 
give me much trouble... Thanks again...

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:25 +0100, Foxy wrote:
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>>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.
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>Just for clarification, I'm running Ubuntu Breezy with the latest
>GNOME. 
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>What you have in GNOME is not transparency, it's simply using the same
>desktop picture as the background image for the panel. As a result,
>you're under the "impression" that the panel is transparent, but it's
>not real transparency as you don't see things through as you see with
>Xfce panel and xfwm4 compositing.
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>That's a bug difference :P
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>Cheers,
>Olivier.
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