[SHR-U] Transparent qwo

Dan Staley daniel.l.staley at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 16:06:48 CEST 2009


Thanks for the reply!
I may give it a try when I get the time and I'll report back how it goes.


-Dan

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Richard Kralovic <riso at om.ksp.sk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using transparent qwo, but I haven't upgraded my FR since I wrote
> the instructions (it's on my todo list, but... :-) ). So, I am not very
> sure about the current state of packages, but to the best of my
> knowledge, situation is as follows:
>
> 1) 2) Nobody maintains Xglamo, last commit at git.openmoko.org was 7
> months ago. Glamo driver for xorg is under active development, so maybe
> it just works by now. Nevertheless, the patch on Xglamo was accepted to
> SHR quite long time ago, so if you use SHR+Xglamo, part of my patch
> should be included. (It is the part that fixes crashing; the second part
> of the patch that improves motion event handling has not been included
> afaik).
>
> 3) No idea if the composite extension is enabled by default in any
> distribution, but this is just a configuration issue...
>
> 4) Xcompmgr is in openembedded, but I do not know if the binary is
> provided by the standard opkg feeds of any distribution.
>
> 5) You do not really have to patch qwo; an alternative is to use
> transset utility to set the transparency manually. However, the patch
> improves usability significantly imho. The transparency patch has not
> been accepted upstream yet. (Actually, last commit to qwo git repository
> is from 28 May).
>
> 6) I am not aware of any inclusions of the illume patch anywhere.
>
> Greets
>        Richard
>
>
> Dan Staley wrote:
> > I really like the idea of qwo and want to try out the transparent
> > version mentioned at [1].
> > However, the instructions were written months ago, and involve patching
> > xglamo and illume...so I am hesitant to try given that the changes may
> > not be relevant as the packages may have changed (perhaps even
> > implemented the patches!).
> >
> > Given that literki seems to be very quick and handles transparency very
> > well, has anyone recently tried a transparent qwo?  If so, are the
> > patches and install process at [1] still applicable?
> > If so....are there any plans to merge the patches in so that a
> > transparent binary of qwo could be provided?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -Dan Staley
> >
> > [1] http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~riso/Openmoko/qwo/<http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Eriso/Openmoko/qwo/>
> >
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