how to detect composit manager

[Dan Winship]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Dan Winship wrote:
>> Yes. The latest CVS version of the EWMH defines a manager selection
>> _NET_WM_CM_S0 (for screen 0, _S1 for screen 1, etc). If you're using gtk
>> 2.10, you can use gdk_screen_is_composited() to test it. (If not, you
>> can look at that code to see how to test it.)
> 
> Question: despite what the documentation says, does that function return
> true only when there is a compositing manager running, or just when the
> composite extension is there?

When there is a compositing manager running. (Or rather, when there is
an EWMH 1.4-compliant compositing manager running.)

-- Dan