On Saturday 16 July 2011 15:24:56 Alex Fiestas wrote: > Hi there > > One of the issues I have when I setup my XRandR config is that plasma > fails to set the composite theme (the good looking with ARGB one). > > After thinking about it a little bit, and knowing how KWin and Plasma > are handling XRandR events I think I know where the bug is. > > When adding a new screen XRandR produces 3 events: move, resize, > screenAdded. For each of these events KWin will restart the composite. > At the same time, Plasma listens ot each of these events and do its part > of the job (resizing panels etc), and I guess that is in these events > where plasma updates the Theme (and ask if composite is on). This will > eventually fail since KWin can be in the mdidle of restarting the > composite, so Plasma will sue the not-compositing theme instead. > > After checking how KWindowSystem::compositingActive works on X11 I'm out > of ideas of how to fix this issue correctly, so maybe we've to add a > workaround in Plasma or maybe something else between KWin and Plasma. > > Any ideas? The bug is much simpler - Plasma just simply fails to recognize that a compositing manager is active. I can see this each time I restart kwin (which is considerable often). In order to get translucent panels back, I have to kquitapp plasma-desktop, plasma-desktop.
If anyone knows where to look at in Plasma code, I would try to fix it as it deeply annoys me. Cheers Martin
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