composite manager

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Carl

Carl Bolduc wrote:

> I installed xfce4 svn snapshot and I'm amazed by it, specially the 
> panel. I would like to use the composite manager, but only to get 
> transparency in the panel. I love the fact that it's transparent and 
> becomes opaque on mouse over. But when I enable composite feature, I 
> also get drop shadows on windows. It looks good but it makes moving 
> windows very un-fluid. Is there hidden option to disble these shadows?

The new wmtweaks plugin allow you to do that, and quite a few other neat 
things.

> And if I may suggest, it would be great to have the option to render 
> window decors transparent, I've tried it under kde and it's usefull and 
> beautiful.

There is a patch in bugzilla to do that. I don't like it much (niether 
the effect nor the way it's made) so I dod not include the patch, but if 
you really want it, it's there.

Cheers,
Olivier.