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Re: [trinity-devel] compton × screensavers

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:27:49 +0200
On Monday 21 of April 2014 00:31:53 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > 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
>

Yes, I can confirm, problems screensaver × compositor are resolved.
Thank you.

-- 
Slavek