Bug#443936: xserver-xorg-video-mga: windowmaker and 1.9.99 get along terribly

[kls <debbts@eamp.org>]

> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:32 -0400, kls wrote:
> >
> > EXA on ATI is usable ( although I think it's barely perceptably slower
> > than composite-less XAA ) but compositing/aiglx(?) still has the other
> > non-speed related bugs:
> >
> >  * wmnet's window contents being placed in the wrong location
> >  * windowmaker's shaped transient indicating which workspace I'm on
> >    isn't shaped
> >  * wmxmms quits with an obscure GDK error. (This happens even when not
> >    running under windowmaker)
> >
> > For the heck of it I tried xcompmgr, and on my ATI windowmaker's
> > decorations are all differently wrong than on my MGA -- on the ATI
> > they all seem to be in a "brighten only" mode, whereas on the MGA
> > they're all pure transparent.
> 
> Can you provide screenshots?
> 
> It's weird that merely enabling the Composite extension or AIGLX would
> cause this - they should have no effect unless their features are
> actively used by clients. (Also, AIGLX is not really enabled when the
> DRI is disabled, as in the log file of the original report.) Some older

I've reconfigured things so many times by now in the process of trying
to figure things out...

> clients used to have trouble with Composite's ARGB visuals - does
> setting the environment variable
> 
> XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
> 
> for running windowmaker make a difference?

Putting that in the general environment fixes all the graphical errors
I've yet noticed. Do you still want screenshots?

 - robert