Re: NEW: xcompmgr

[Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper_(_at_)_nedbsd_(_dot_)_nl>]

Ok, I just installed yesterday's snapshot, and now it's OK. I must have messed
up my X installation somehow...

Cheers,
Jasper

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:50:03 +0200
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper_(_at_)_nedbsd_(_dot_)_nl> wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:42:02 +0200
> Matthieu Herrb <matthieu_(_dot_)_herrb_(_at_)_laas_(_dot_)_fr> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jasper
> 
> 
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