on 06/03/2009 12:10 PM Graeme Gill said the following: > >> The last is what's doing it. I remembered that Fedora has an option >> to run XFCE, and managed to duplicate what you see. I'll investigate >> as time allows... > > OK, the answer is that I need to set the appropriate hint on the window > in dispwin.c, and it will be rendered opaque. Mind you, the atom isn't > documented anywhere except the XFCE source code... Thanks for looking! So this is an XFCE sillyness only, other compositing WMs don't suffer from it? I really wish someone would pick up WindowMaker development again...... thx afx -- http://afximages.com/