Comment #18 on issue 19 by pastorel...@gmail.com: Investigate a way to allow contrib extensions to use compositing. http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=19 I would like to continue the discussion in this thread because I think that composite in XMonad can be interesting. There is compiz branch without window manager at http://git.compiz.org/~tuxmarkv/zcomp/ that can be used with XMonad. That is a good idea but for some reason I can't see any kind of progress since 2010. The compiz project is completely modular except for the window manager part. Said that, I don't know if compiz or projects like that are the solution.