[15:13] <NekoXP> hey guys. anyone know where in gdm or standard gnome desktop session stuff the backgrounds are handled, like when you swap backdrop it does that fade between backdrops?
[15:14] <OurMaNdO|W> compiz
[15:15] <OurMaNdO|W> compizconfig settings manager
[15:15] <OurMaNdO|W> under animations
[15:15] <OurMaNdO|W> will allow u to change
[15:17] <NekoXP> this is pre-compiz.. like maverick/oneiric kind of era. I assume gnome-session is handling the background transitions, but it seems unlikely (or maybe it is very likely) that gdm wouldn't share this code (since it does the same thing logged in and for loading the gdm splash)
[15:17] <OurMaNdO|W> i was using compiz with 10.04
[15:18] <OurMaNdO|W> which was before maverick and oneiric
[15:18] <OurMaNdO|W> i also use it on 13.04
[15:19] <NekoXP> hmm window manager is a good place to look, I guess gdm needs one too and that makes sense.. so it'd be metacity
[15:20] <OurMaNdO|W> window manager doesnt handle window animations
[15:20] <OurMaNdO|W> a fade is an animation
[15:21] <OurMaNdO|W> opengl and compiz handle it
[15:23] <NekoXP> okay you're just not helping at all.
[15:25] <NekoXP> I have metacity and gdm. I updated cairo for a good reason, and now my fade-between-backgrounds on gdm and inside gnome using the gnome appearance properties has turned from a fade into a kind of burn-in effect (everything scales to white). I am looking for the thing that handles that fade effect *for the background image* on the root window.
[15:28] <NekoXP> it would probably be also called from anything that uses the xml backdrop stuff, since every transition does the same, it should be the new backdrop going from full transparency to full opacity over the current background, but it instead does what in Photoshop is the multiply filter, then snaps to the new image. So I assume it's some kind of alpha channel pre-multiplication thing or the values are backwards or.. I can't figure out what is even
[15:28] <NekoXP> handling rendering the backdrop let alone find code
[15:39] <NekoXP> there's got to be something that's watching for gconf updates in desktop/gnome/background and then doing the rendering.. if I knew that I'd know what it told to go render it if it didn't do it itself..
[15:41] <NekoXP> bang. it's gnome-settings-daemon
[15:43] <NekoXP> which calls libgnomeui...
[20:18] <mfisch> ogra_: you still around?