[openbox] Status of dcompmgr?

[Christopher Jeffrey]

On 9/13/11, Andrew Gallant <jamslam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd say your best alternative is the Cairo Composite Manager [1].
> There is also Unagi [2], but I don't think it's as mature as cairo,
> but it does seem to be active.
>
> Honestly, I find xcompmgr quite suitable for simple transparency in
> daily usage. If xcompmgr started crapping out, I'd probably try Unagi
> and then move to Cairo.
>
> (I don't know the status of dcompmgr, but I'm pretty sure it's a
> modified form of xcompmgr to support menu transparency in Openbox,
> last I heard.)

I know of Cairo, but the project looks dead. There hasn't been a
single commit in around a year and a half I think. I hadn't heard of
Unagi, I might have to look into it.

On 9/13/11, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>
> I have an xcompmgr tree in my git repo that is modified and fixed some
> bugs and such.  I still don't like xcompmgr personally tho..
>
> dcompmgr is a simple Xrender and GL based compositor.  The Xrender
> version works okay I think, but has few features.  The GL version
> works but is super slow.
>
> The goal has been to get a fast implementation of compositing into
> Openbox but this has yet to become a reality.  There are various
> branches in Openbox repo to this regard.
>
> TL;DR I don't officially, personally plan on doing anything with
> dcompmgr at this time.
>
> - Dana
>

Dana, I've been using your xcompmgr fork, I find it much more bearable
than the regular xcompmgr, but still not ideal because it's based on
xcompmgr. I'll have to look at those openbox branches, I had no idea
they existed. I would be really excited for this to become a reality
eventually. I think a lot of openbox users would. :)

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Christopher Jeffrey <chjjeffrey at gmail.com>
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