Window compositing in LXDE 14.04 [PPC]?

[Rafael Laguna]

It is command line. Actually Compton is a fork of xcompmgr. Now there's 
a simple GUI for configuring it, but it's easier to handle in a 
terminal. I made a short and easy guide to handle it:

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/p/compton.html


Rafael Laguna
Lubuntu Artwork Team


On jue, 9 jul, 2015 at 9:20 , Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:54:54 -0700
> Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>  HH:
>> 
>>  Reading the blog report it looks like Compton is CLI based??  Seems 
>> like it
>>  is as he is showing the various line items to set it up . . . I'd 
>> prefer a
>>  simple GUI item that I can check or uncheck.  Either of those other 
>> apps
>>  "xcompmgr" or "cairo-compmgr" GUI items, or all are CLI??
>> 
>>  F
>> 
>>  On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Fritz Hudnut 
>> <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  > Homes:
>>  >
>>  > Thanks for the fast reply . . . I'll check it.  Is "compton" 
>> created by
>>  > hip-hop aficionados???  I could probably drive over and pick it 
>> up . . .
>>  > after traffic hours, whenever that is . . . .  LA is all about 
>> the traffic
>>  > . . . .  : - )
>>  >
>>  > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <
>>  > herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Compton is great for what you are looking for. See the 
>> ppcluddite blog
>>  >> for detail on how to set it up.
>>  >>
>>  >> Sent from my iPhone
>>  >>
>>  >> > On Jul 9, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Fritz Hudnut 
>> <este.el.paz at gmail.com>
>>  >> wrote:
>>  >> >
>>  >> > Folks:
>>  >> >
>>  >> > I've been continuing my testing of my min-installed XFCE 14.04 
>> for PPC,
>>  >> and, kind of a mixed bag . . . it's ***almost*** there in terms 
>> of a daily
>>  >> frontline system, seems like the kernel figured out how to do 
>> "suspend" . .
>>  >> . but still, glitchy when it comes to dragging windows and th 
>> fan runs
>>  >> incessantly for "normal" tasks like typing emails . . . .  Both 
>> OSX 10.4.11
>>  >> and XFCE 14 seem to have problems loading the Gmail page . . . .
>>  >> >
>>  >> > Today I thought I'd add LXDE to the mix and had to figure out 
>> how to
>>  >> get the toolbar moved out of the way of the cairo-dock . . . but 
>> then the
>>  >> large "shadow" has appeared around the cairo dock.  In XFCE all 
>> I had to do
>>  >> was open "window manager" and check the "enable compositing" box 
>> and I was
>>  >> good to go.  Going through the numerous apps that might relate 
>> to window
>>  >> management in LXDE doesn't show anything like that.
>>  >> >
>>  >> > Can anyone point me to the application that might be the GUI 
>> option to
>>  >> enable compositing?  Or, I have to add "compiz" or "metacity" or 
>> something,
>>  >> which will then let me check the "enable compositing" box?  As 
>> it is now
>>  >> the blue shadow cuts off a large swath of the screen real estate 
>> . . . .
>>  >> >
>>  >> > Next stop, check and see if Openbox will show the cairo-dock 
>> && shadow
>>  >> . . . or nothing at all . . . .  : - )  Dang, had to quit C-D 
>> just to see
>>  >> the send button . . . .
>>  >> >
>>  >> > F
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> I think that actually compton isn't really CLI based but a grapical 
> application that is configured with a configuration file. I think I 
> remember seeing one or two differnt GUI utilities for compton but I 
> don't think they made it into the repos and with ppas not being build 
> for powerpc I am not sure if there are builds for them. Sometimes 
> compiling a GUI from source is harder than just editing the config 
> files.  I seem to remember one a while back called paranoid that came 
> with pclinuxos but have not really seen that elsewhere or widely 
> discussed.
> 
> I think I know quite a bit for someone who doesn't really like 
> compositing or desktop effects.
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> Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>
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