[Xmonad] compositing

[Don Stewart]

john:
> Not too long ago this screen shot used to appear on the xmonad homepage:
> 
>    http://xmonad.org/images/xmonad_xcompmgr.png
> 
> It was on the strength of the image that I started to play with xmonad.  I now have xmonad working and have even enabled a few extensions.  But for
> the life of me I cannot find any description of how to achieve the shadow effect.  Can anyone help?
> 

That's using the xcompmgr application, as described here:

    http://xmonad.org/contrib.html#xcompmgr

well, not really described. Look up xcompmgr's man page, e.g.

    http://packages.debian.org/experimental/x11/xcompmgr

I'm glad you liked that screenshot too!

-- Don