Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> But why did he remove the forced disabling of the composite extension?
> 
> Well, that piqued my curiosity, so I tried the same and built 1.5.2 with
> the composite extension, rebuilt metacity-2.22 with compositing support,
> then built and installed avant-window-navigator.  It basically works,
> but with a number of caveats:
> 
> 1) Compositing does not work in multiwindow mode, but the extension
> still shows as available.  Sounds obvious, but since window
> transparency, etc. is possible on Win2K+, perhaps someday this could be
> figured out.
> 
> 2) The root window turns a silver color, even in rootless mode, and
> cannot be changed through xsetroot.
> 
> 3) The content of OpenGL windows (e.g. glxgears) is completely
> transparent.  This reminds me of what used to happen with the old
> experimental XWin_GL server, except then they were all black.
> 
> Still, it's interesting and shouldn't impede normal usage, so I think
> I'll include it in 1.5.2 as an experiment.

Interesting.  How is the speed?

Perhaps patch like this so it's off by default, enabled with "+extension 
Composite" ?

--- xserver-orig/os/utils.c     2008-10-10 19:12:49.000000000 +0100
+++ xserver/os/utils.c  2008-10-29 11:16:23.875000000 +0000
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@
  _X_EXPORT Bool noBigReqExtension = FALSE;
  #endif
  #ifdef COMPOSITE
-_X_EXPORT Bool noCompositeExtension = FALSE;
+_X_EXPORT Bool noCompositeExtension = TRUE;
  #endif

  #ifdef DAMAGE


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