[Xmonad] compositing

[Don Stewart]

allbery:
> 
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 20:53 , Andrea Spada wrote:
> 
> >Well, this is a very interesting topic. I always wanted a solution to
> >not only make my unfocused windows transparent (by a customizable
> >amount), but implementing much advanced compositing
> >functions, to a definable class of windows, as:
> 
> sjanssen & co. are looking into xmonad hooks to allow you to do  
> things like that, as long as compositing in a library so you don't  
> need to use e.g. compiz.
> 

yes, in particular Eric Mertens and I are investigating how to add
pluggable compositing code to xmonad, via extensions. We think there's
great potential here.

-- Don