[Pkg-xfce-devel] compositing

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Sun Apr 23 12:39:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:25:11PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> In the package currently in our svn, I've added dependencies and
> configure option to build xfwm4 with compositing enabled. It works
> fine here, and by default, xfwm disable compositing if system is too
> slow (or if there is no acceleration, and thus 3D system is slow). It
> can be explicitely deactivated at runtime using xfwm4 --compositor=off

> I think it's a good default, because people begin to ask it. I don't
> know if we should build two packages (xfwm4-compositor and xfwm4),
> maybe it's too much overwork because of runtime switch.

Yup, I think it's great to just leave it on by default.  Upstream are
and so should we and with the timing check I can't really see any
problems.

Having two packages would be annoying.

Simon.

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