Re: compositing: agreeing on a hint name for CMs requesting to draw the desktop background

[Nathaniel Smith <njs pobox com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:42:06PM +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Compiz sets the _COMPIZ_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED hint for requesting to draw
> the desktop background. There is a patch against Nautilus [1] available
> that uses this hint to draw the folder background with alpha=0.

>From your email, I can't tell what this hint actually does (or even
what window it is set on -- the root? -- or who sets it), and I can't
tell why compiz wants to do anything different with backgrounds than
other WMs (i.e., just use the window with type DESKTOP as the
background).  Could you perhaps elaborate some?

-- Nathaniel

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