[Glamor] Disappearing tray icons with xserver 1.15.99.903+ from git using Xfce

[Michel Dänzer]

On 09.07.2014 22:21, Laszlo Kertesz wrote:
> Hello,
> it seems that the tray icons drawn from GTK2 apps are not visible again
> on Xfce used without compositing (Debian Testing, xserver from git).
> This bug is fixed if libglamor used with older xserver versions.
> I suppose this change is responsible:
> 
> Revert "glamor: Fix coordinates handling for composite source/mask
> pictures"
> 
> Are there any plans to solve this issue before the 1.6 release?

Unfortunately not, that's why this fix had to be reverted. :(


> Xfce and probably other DEs that dont use compositing will be affected.

As mentioned in the revert commit log, the fix for tray icons broke KDE
window decorations.


There is an ongoing GSoC project for reworking the glamor RENDER
acceleration, that will hopefully resolve both issues for the xserver
1.17 release.


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