A quick update on the compositor. I updated the branch to match the trunk, so all the bug fixes have been up into the branch.
Some more compositing bugs have been squashed:
Changing screen resolution should work
The transparency property on windows is now respected (meaning that gdk_window_set_opacity works, as does transset)
Jonathan Matthew fixed a signed bug that [...]
Everyone seemed concerned about window previews in the alt-tab dialog…
20 minutes coding, 30 lines of code added, this composite lark is easy (yeah, right…). Not committed yet, a few bugs remain (note the glitches in the Gossip window corners and the terminal window doesn’t get previewed yet, and obviously the scaling), but I’m confident I’ll [...]
As Thomas said, I’ve been working on hacking about with a compositor in Metacity recently. All I’ve really done is to take xcompmgr.c by Keith Packard and worked it into Metacity, so I’m not claiming that I really wrote the compositor, more massaged an already existing one into shape. The code is at http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/metacity/branches/iains-blingtastic-bucket-o-bling/ and [...]
Some helpful Ubunteros came and fixed Thomas’s laptop, which meant that Benjamin’s patch got reviewed (good work there), and also that the question was raised about what api.[ch] are good for.
Most of the checkin activity today was from Iain Holmes with his new compositor rewrite (or, as he has called the branch, the Bling-Tastic Bucket [...]
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