Metacity and --enable-composite (was: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed)

[Frank Knobbe]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 08:57 -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in compiling Metacity 2.16.3 with
> --enable-compositor? From the looks of it, it should find all the
> required extensions in /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkconfig. The only one missing
> appears to be cm.pc, the info for a composite manager. Any idea on how
> to pound Metacity in shape such that it supports real transparency?

Grrr.... reply to self...  :)

Never mind above email. My Metacity is compiled without a compositor
manager, but after discovering and installing gcompmgr, the translucency
does work.

What exactly then is the benefit compiling Metacity with
--enable-composite??

Thanks,
Frank

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