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Perhaps a different compton backend gives other results? https://github.com/chjj/compton/wiki/perf-guide

Did the commit work? Do you use the chjj compton and did you try https://github.com/yshui/compton/?

Good! The question that remains is to what degree the font corruption is dependent on the use of Xft fonts. Could you try non-Xft fonts or configure --disable-xfreetype?

This is very useful information!

You could try this patch: ```diff diff --git a/src/ypaint.cc b/src/ypaint.cc index 15fa4263..6814f968 100644 --- a/src/ypaint.cc +++ b/src/ypaint.cc @@ -118,5 +118,5 @@ Graphics::~Graphics() { XftDraw* Graphics::handleXft() { - if (fXftDraw ==...

I made a slightly different commit to take into accounts different depths. If you think we are done with this we can head for a new release.

Could you explain how you build your icewm? Using autoconf or cmake?

Change the taskbarbg.xpm to be transparent.

Looked into this and it turns out not so easy as the background is set and copying of pixmaps ignores transparency. [This technique](https://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~liberato/screensaver/trans.html) isn't applied by Ice. Even if it...

@takiz Is this issue still of interest to you? It is possible to do in the 1.6.1 release if you set Alpha=1 and use the following taskbar/taskbarbg.xpm: ```C /* XPM...