Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
We've been working quite a bit on integrating compiz, so that there should be no 'black magic' involved. If compiz works on your hardware with the driversthat we ship, it should be just a matter of enabling it. If you requirefurther workarounds to get it to work with the open source drivers, please letus know so we can incorporate these in the default setup.
On my machine (i965) I get white windows on a black background, e.g. I can drag some white rectangle and get the wobbly window effect, but all windows are solid (if wobbly) opaque rectangles.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.