Hi gber! I use it because the effects (fading and such) are much more smooth + it eliminates screen tearing completely. I recognize the old compositing manager by more snappy effects and loads of screen tearing. Then i go and check the window manager tweaks, and see it's on, even though i turned it off (because compton won't work otherwise). Any other way to eliminate screen tearing with the default compositing? Kind regards and many thanks again, gber. --- Nenad Latinović nenad.latinovic@posteo.de On 02.03.2015 09:28, Guido Berhoerster wrote:

Hi,

* Nenad Latinović <nenad.latinovic@posteo.de> [2015-02-28 18:07]:

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Hey guys. I'm one of those people who always change the default compositing manager to compton in Xfce. But sometimes, I see that

why?

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openSUSE still automatically starts the 'old', default window compositor - how can i make it stop? Because then compton and all its effects don't work properly... To make it clear, i always untick the window manager tweaks to not start the compositor, but sometimes, it just does...

What do you mean by "its effects don't work properly", is there an error message from compton or does it just not start or what exactly happens? How do you distinguish which compositing manager is running? You can check the xfwm4 setting with

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing

IIRC xfwm4 checks on startup whether a compositing manager is already running, so if it is not disabled properly you have a race condition. Please check whether the above command returns "false" now and check again what it returns after the problem happens. It would also be very helpful if you could investigate some method to reproduce this, I just did a number of logout/login cycles with compositing turned off and so far it always stayed off. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org