On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:35:47 +0200 Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:42:02 +0200 > > Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>xcompmgr is a sample composite manager for X. Together with the X > >>composite extension (which needs to be enabled explicitely in xorg.conf) > >>it helps adding eye-candy (shadows, transparencies, etc) to X > >>applications. Try for instance fluxbox transparencies with 'xcompmgr -c'. > >>-- > >>Matthieu Herrb > > > > Well, thanks for you efforts, but this is what my desktop (i386) looks like > > after running "xcompmgr" (and moving an xterm around): > > > > http://www.shodan.nl/~jasper/obsd/xcompmgr.png > > http://www.shodan.nl/~jasper/obsd/xcompmgr2.png > > > > In the back (on the right) you can see some screens of apps I ran a couple > > of > > weeks ago, but who's aura has returned ;-) > > > > When I terminate the "xcompmgr" program, my normal desktop returns. I used > > to > > run Slackware Linux on this laptop, and there xcompmgr worked, so the > > combination of this card and X.org is ok. > > Sorry but this is a completely useless report. > > Which X.Org driver are you using? I'm using the i810 driver. > Is your slackware using X.Org 6.8.2 or > -current, is it using the released xcompmgr or a patched one ? I used to have Slackware on this laptop, I stopped using linsucks about half a year ago. But I think it was X.org 6.8.1 with plain xcompmgr. > > The X composite extension is known to have issues. This is why it's not > enabled by default. > > If you care about doing a useful bug report, please submit it to X.Org's > bugzilla <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/>, and attach Xorg.0.log for > both systems. I didn't a the time to do this when I wrote the previous e-mail, but I already planned that to do tomorrow. Cheers, Jasper > -- > Matthieu Herrb -- "Security is decided by quality" -- Theo de Raadt
