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Re: [trinity-devel] compton × screensavers

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:31:53 -0500
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> 2014-04-08 5:00 GMT+04:00 Fat-Zer <fatzer2@...>:
>
>> 2014-04-08 3:03 GMT+04:00 Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I tried to set the compositor to compton-tde and now instead of
>>> screensaver
>>> Clock shows only black screen. In the test, the Clock is displayed
>>> correctly.
>>> When I set the screensaver to Swarm, the bees appear, but background is
>>> not
>>> erased - bees appears on the desktop background image. With screensaver
>>> Science displays the background image, but it is not visible any
>>> further
>>> activity. Some screensavers do not show problems - Fiberlamp, Galaxy.
>>>
>>
>> Anyone notice the same behavior?
>>>
>> Screensavers work fine for me, but I noticed several different
>> problems...
>> e.g. the compton-tde doesn't applies changes in settings immediately and
>> fails to start if  «Use OpenGL» checked...
>>
>> btw may be it's older bugs and not regressions. I'm not active user om
>> xcomposite...
>>
>
> PS: I have a build with patches from neighbor thread with all optional
> features enabled. AFAIR some compton build-time features e.g. CONFIG_XSYNC
> are disabled in current git. can you try the patches?
>

The blank screen problem should be fixed in GIT hash c2692e04.  It would
have shown up with the use of any compositor.

Tim
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