Re: New compositor patch

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann redhat com>]

Ikke wrote:

> > Here is a new patch that takes care of most of the previous comments.
> > I'd really like to get something committed to HEAD. This patch should
> > be minimally intrusive to a non-compositing metacity.
> >    
> I'll try to test this today. I tried your previous work in the -spif2
> branch, but didnt get it to work, not even the libcm tests and demo
> executables (worked several hours on it).
> Let's hope I'll be luckier now :-)
>
> (Running Xorg 7.0 using the binary nvidia driver on a Geforce2MX440
> 64MB, nothing fancy)
>  
Hate to say it, but it will actually crash unless you have the X server from
CVS HEAD.

The technical reason is that it relies on the COMPOSITE extension not 
sending
MapNotify/UnmapNotify events when it first redirects the windows.



Soren