Composite and Metacity.

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

>       I've tried to enable dropshadows in two systems running FC3, in 
> both I stumbled into problems with Metacity. In one system with an 
> nVidia GF FX5900, window borders would be transparent, and only 
> "unmanaged" (borderless) windows would cast shadows (menus, dragged 
> icons, etc), while managed windows would not, the window border would 
> be traslucent, and not cast a shadow. The other system, a laptop, will 
> not focus windows when loged into GNOME, I cannot even run xcompmgr to 
> activate dropshadows when I have active the Composite and RENDER 
> extensions. However KDE works in both systems just fine with 
> dropshadows, why isn't Metacity working as it should? Is there 
> somethening that can be done, do I need a newer metacity or a patched 
> one?
>
> Thanks.
>
If anyone else messses with this and stumbles into the same wall I did, 
you need a newer Metacity version, I found that 2.8.8 works quite good 
and allowed me to start a GNOME session in the Laptop, I still have to 
try it in the Desktop, but I'm confident it will work just as fine. If 
you ever need that rpm, get it from:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1589976/com/metacity-2.8.8-1.1.fc3.nr.i386.rpm.html