Bug 93290

Summary:	XFWM4 ebuilds should provide a composite useflag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lachlan Pease <predatory.kangaroo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	XFCE Team <xfce>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to add the composite USE flag

Description Lachlan Pease 2005-05-19 21:45:54 UTC

As of version 4.2.0, XFCE's Window Manager provides a compositor, but it must be
enabled by a configure flag.
By default, the ebuilds for xfce-base/xfwm4 enable the compositor all the time,
which may seem fine until you think about the myriad problems that spawn from it
- it makes firefox seem jittery, it causes problems, even crashes, on many
systems, especially while using OpenGL.  Moreover, users may want to use a
different compositor to the one XFWM provides.

As such, I propose that a composite USE flag be adopted (at least locally) that
will allow the user to choose to enable the compositor at compile time.

A patch is attached to add the USE flag to use.local.desc and to xfwm4-4.2.2

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Lachlan Pease 2005-05-19 21:47:54 UTC

Created attachment 59344 [details, diff]
Patch to add the composite USE flag

Comment 2 Brad Cowan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-14 14:27:34 UTC

this may be viable in the future, but for now I'm leaving as is...thanks for 
your opinion I will take it into consideration :)