Comment #13 on issue 19 by amdragon: Investigate a way to allow contrib extensions to use compositing. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=19 Regarding cairo-compmgr, I've been tinkering with using Cairo from within xmonad and it works quite well. It seems like a good option for drawing once the basic compositing machinery is in place. I've done very little actual implementation of compositing itself, but it seems like things based on "automatic redirection" would be fairly easy to do in xmonad's architecture, though they could benefit from easier access to X events (only the current layout can receive X events) and better timer support for animations (threads perhaps?). However, automatic redirection only lets you access window contents. In order to change the way windows are drawn, we need manual redirection, which places the onus of drawing the entire screen on xmonad and, thus, is a much bigger challenge and would probably require core changes. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings