Feature request: drop shadow

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:08:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I assumed the same, actually. And I still think such effects are better
> > handled by the composite manager (given that its already implemented in at
> > least xcompmgr...)
> 
> Pardon me for being obtuse here, but I was not aware composite
> managers can add shadows to text within applications.  Maybe I should
> mess with xcompmgr a tad more, but I could have swore it really just
> managed window frames and things.  Maybe I need to grok the xcompmgr
> code.

enabling standard server-side-compositing with "xcompmgr -s" is enough to
add drop shadow. its not very usable, but xcompmgr is just a hack anyways,
so i guess future composite managers can do better (some people say
xcomposite is a hack and will be replaced by xgl+yet-to-be-defined-hacks),
but who knows.

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