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#1 2018-02-15 12:54:05

anorax
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Registered: 2014-06-16
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Xfwm4 Compositor: Window animations?

After a full pacman upgrade I noticed that suddenly windows in Xfce are no longer animated when opened or closed (like in Windows 7/8/10). When I thought about it I wasn't sure why they have been animated before (haven't used my Arch system in a while). I do not have any extra compositor like Compton or compiz installed but only use Xfwm4's built-in compositor (Settings->Window Manager Tweaks->Compositor). I don't think that it can do any kind of window animation at all or can it? Meanwhile I'm not quite sure if maybe it was only Chrome that has been animated on opening an closing. Could it be that chrome had some sort of own rendering tweaks built-in before? Is there a way to have this kind of window animation with Xfwm4's built-in compositor?

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#2 2018-02-15 16:24:18

IT-Larf
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Re: Xfwm4 Compositor: Window animations?

XFWM has no window animations. Compiz is depricated(0.8 at least) and has several issues under XFCE. Compton or Kwin might be an Option for you.

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#3 2018-02-15 16:38:11

anorax
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Re: Xfwm4 Compositor: Window animations?

Yeah, thanks! I'll consider them.

It must have been something else anyway because I remember having seen the animations while using the awesome window manager. I'm really beginning to wonder whether this was just in a dream. ^^ Beside compton (which also does no animations like the MS-Windows-style opening/closing) I have no other package installed which could have done this. That's why I suspected it might have been Chrome itself. Maybe using its own rendering engine. Could that be?

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#4 2018-02-16 13:44:20

IT-Larf
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Re: Xfwm4 Compositor: Window animations?

Pretty sure chrome does not. I dont even think it can easily if it wanted to...

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