I'm running fvwm on my laptop and I just finished installing cairo-clock. When I run cairo-clock, it runs as expected, but has a black box around it which is supposed to actually be transparent. I found this on the FAQ at
http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23#mark_3:
Q: The clock compiles/installs, but when I run it there is such a terrible black square behind it?
A: Be sure to fire up your compositing-manager and the black square will magically vanish.
I've looked around to find out if I can fire up a compositing-manager with my setup and haven't found much out about it. Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager
it explains that xfvwm is a combination of a window manager and a compositing manager.
Is xfvwm like fvwm? How could I get a compositing manager running without installing a new window manager as well? Any other suggestions? Thanks.
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EDIT
Okay maybe I'm blind. In the first link that I posted there's a reference right at the beginning to compositing-manager xcompmgr. I'll see where that takes things.