On Oct 22, 2013 4:23 PM, "Ryan Tandy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Pedro and Vincent, > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any news? > > Well, I finally (where does the time go!) thought about xcompmgr again. > > I applied the patch posted by Brandon Gooch in > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46285#c3 and got mixed > results. Under xfwm4 I still get no shadows at all. Under metacity > with server-side compositing (xcompmgr -s), the shadows are drawn but > don't obey the parameters (-t -l -r) I supply. Under metacity with > client-side compositing (xcompmgr -c), the shadows are drawn according > to my parameters, but when moving a window over top of a Chrome > window, the old shadow frames are not removed but stay visible until > Chrome redraws itself. (I'm running google-chrome-stable, not > chromium). > > I pushed my changes up to Github (https://github.com/rtandy/xcompmgr) > and uploaded a package to mentors > (http://mentors.debian.net/package/xcompmgr), so please try it in case > I made a mistake. The patch does seem to be applied by dpkg-source. > Pedro, you wrote before that it behaved correctly for you, right? > > Considering that xcompmgr is more or less inactive upstream and still > buggy, and at least two alternatives (compton and unagi) are now in > Debian (besides some WMs gaining built-in compositors), I'm wondering > whether spending time on xcompmgr is worth it, or whether RM/RoQA > would be more appropriate. That said, if someone else still prefers > xcompmgr over its alternatives, I'm happy to work on improving it. > Looking forward to your response. > > Thanks > Ryan
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the offer. For my part, I've been using compton for over a year and I'm very happy with it, so I don't think I will be going back to xcompmgr. Regards Pedro
