Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-14 Thread Israel
On 07/14/2015 09:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Israel israeld...@gmail.com mailto:israeld...@gmail.com wrote: In other words the OGs from compton stay in their hood while the OGs from XFCE stay in theirs... and things can get messed up if you try to

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-14 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Israel israeld...@gmail.com wrote: In other words the OGs from compton stay in their hood while the OGs from XFCE stay in theirs... and things can get messed up if you try to bring compton to XFCE. @Israel: OK, I can be down wit dat . . . it seemed like you

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-14 Thread Aere Greenway
On 07/14/2015 09:29 AM, Israel wrote: compton (and xfwm) should stop when your session stops (logout/ or a restart of lightdm)... you can always check what is running via a task manager/system monitor Israel Fritz: When I sign-out, my screen is still in (or becomes that way after going

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-14 Thread Brendan Perrine
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:31:18 -0600 Aere Greenway a...@dvorak-keyboards.com wrote: Is lightdm terminated (and re-initialized) by logging off, or does it Lightdm stays as a display manager unless you restart it. It also because of lightdm that you can graphically switch users with to users

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-13 Thread Israel
On 07/12/2015 05:45 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: .. @Israel, et al: Another technical question came to mind on this compton disown . . . besides wondering if there is a sudo in front of any of these commands. And that is, since I am running XFCE, which has its own compositing manager, and

Re: Another question-- Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-12 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Hi Fritz! you can run a command from a terminal and then add *disown* after the command to disown it from the terminal. Then if you close the terminal the program will still be running. If you don't disown the program from that terminal it will close when the terminal closes. feel free

Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-12 Thread Fritz Hudnut
@Israel: Thanks for the details, much more clear and even looks do-able for the GUI driver . . . . F On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 5:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Subject: Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04 Message-ID: 55a13f53.20...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-11 Thread Israel
@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04 Straight out of Compton... the official wiki is here: https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki But to test it, just open the terminal and type compton disown (or compton

Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-11 Thread Fritz Hudnut
israeld...@gmail.com To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04 Straight out of Compton... the official wiki is here: https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki But to test it, just open the terminal and type compton disown (or compton -b ) This gives

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-10 Thread Israel
Straight out of Compton... the official wiki is here: https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki But to test it, just open the terminal and type compton disown (or compton -b ) This gives you the nice default setup As usual, Arch has a brilliant resource for configuring things..

Re: Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
XFCE compositing works out of the box. Once they get Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 working then you will have more options. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:20 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I think that actually

Window compositing in Lubuntu 14.04

2015-07-09 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:20 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I think that actually compton isn't really CLI based but a grapical application that is configured with a configuration file. I think I remember seeing one or two differnt GUI utilities for compton but I don't