[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#374158: xfce4: Can't access the "compositing manager" tab

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Yves-Alexis Perez may or may not have written...

> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:00 +0200, Christophe Dongieux wrote:
[snip]
>> I have a laptop with a S3 Savage/IX-MV graphical card and xorg-7.0 (I
>> dist-upgraded yesterday). I enabled the true transparency with the
>> composite extension, but in xfce4, the 'Compositing Manager' tab is not
>> present; so I  can't test transparency with xfce4. It's weird, because the
>> true transparency is working with KDE; so it's not a problem with my
>> card...

> What does ~/.xsession-errors says?

> You can try to run xfwm4 from a terminal, too. There is an autodetection of
> RENDER extension speed which is run at xfwm4 start. If it's too slow,
> composite is disabled. If you want to force compositing, you can start xfwm
> with: xfwm4 --compositor=on

Or you can try switching from XAA to EXA. Doing so here lets the speed check
succeed, allowing the compositor to be enabled automatically:

  Section "Device"
  	Identifier	"Radeon 9200"
  	Driver		"Radeon"
...
  	Option		"AccelMethod" "EXA"
...
  EndSection

(Check the man page for your card's driver.)

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