Hi Johan,

I've added the patch in for my next xorg-server upload, which will go
into Gutsy after the Tribe2 freeze is over and after I've had a chance
to do some testing, probably within the week.

Have you submitted your patched Feisty version for an SRU yet?

Thanks,
Bryce

> Hi,
> 
> starting with version 0.0.16, the home view in hildon-desktop uses the
> XComposite extension if available to draw applets on the home window.
> 
> Unfortunately we need to rely on the X server behaviour being changed to
> not clip redirected child windows from their parent. We applied the
> patch provided by Keith Packard to our X server.
> 
> The patch is expected to go upstream for the next release of Xorg (7.3).
> In the mean time, since current versions of Xephyr don't have this patch
> applied, developers willing to play with the hildon desktop home in Xephyr
> will need to either:
> 
>   . disable the composite extension in Xephyr (by adding -extension
> Composite) to the command line. hildon desktop will then revert to the
> previous behavior ; or
>   . get a patched Xephyr. I have patched the current Feisty version [2]
> 
> Otherwise the home applets will be clipped from the home view. Once
> upstream has agreed on the version of composite to associate with this
> new behavior, I'll modify home to only use the composite code when this
> version or above is available in the server.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
> -- 
> Johan Bilien
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-March/022668.html
> [2] http://people.via.ecp.fr/~jobi/xserver-xephyr/
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