Created attachment 2331 xfwm4: rebuild all compositing stuff late at the WM startup to get proper shadows I am running xfwm4 as the last command from xinitrc and have some applications that are started prior to it (Xxkb and xfce-panel). When I enabled screen composition and shadows under all windows, ugly whitish shadows appeared for these existing windows and they damaged root window contents, because these whitish remains were left after moving. All new windows produce normal shadows and when I am unticking and ticking back shadow checkbox in the XFCE settings manager, all windows are getting their normal shadows and root windows isn't damaged by them. I am adding the patch that reinitializes compositor stuff on all screens after full initialization of XFWM -- it fixes the situation for me.
How can this be major? That patch is not needed and not suitable actually. Do you run an application that manages the desktop (for example xfdesktop)?
OK, changed to 'normal'. As for xfdesktop -- no, I am not running it. I don't need anything fancy on my desktop, so I am keeping memory footprint for the WM stuff to be quite small. Why the patch isn't suitable?
(In reply to comment #2) > OK, changed to 'normal'. > > As for xfdesktop -- no, I am not running it. I don't need anything fancy on my > desktop, so I am keeping memory footprint for the WM stuff to be quite small. You may want to #define MONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP for xfwm4 to monitor the root pixmap property, although this is not a "supported" configuration and therefore you're on your own there. > Why the patch isn't suitable? Because it will be causing slow down at startup, as the compositor has to repaint all screens at a time where speed is to be expected (thus impacting startup time)
I understand from Olivier's last comment that this patch will not be applied. I'm hence closing the report. Thanks.