Simple Composite app?

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Thu Nov 18 03:24:23 PST 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:31:44 +1100, Chris Debenham wrote:
> Excellent, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Ah, good to hear.

> As a new/side issue, this works when running under metacity + xcompmgr
> but not when running under FVWM (2.5.12) + xcompmgr
> Is there something the WM must do to allow composite to work under it?

The window manager does need to become "ARGB-aware". I don't know the
details, but I would guess it's at least a matter of choosing the right
visual when creating the window for reparenting.

-Carl




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