xcompmgr casts shadow over display when using VirtualBox seamless mode

[DavidBiesack]

I'm running XUbunto and recently upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04

VirtualBox 4.3.12 leaves a "shadow" artifact across my host display when I run a VirtualBox guest VM (Windows 7) in seamless mode.


Here is a screenshot where you can see the effect on the right half of the desktop display.





I moved the (host) browser window so that it spans both monitors, you can see the shadow on top of the right side of it.
This shadow acts like another window - I can stack other host windows on top of it by selecting them, but as soon as I select a guest window,
the shadow is moved above the native host windows. The guest windows (seamless) have no shadow.
If I change from seamless to scaled, this shadow disappears.


I run


xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55


to allow some apps like conky to run with a transparent background. If I kill xcompmgr this shadow
goes away.


If I change from


xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55


to


xcompmgr -n -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55
or
xcompmgr -s -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55


conky works and this large shadow is gone.
Before I upgraded XUbuntu to 14.04 I did not have this problem using xcompmgr

Is this a bug in xcompmgr ? In VirtualBox? X Windows? I don't know where to file this.

[alexpage]

I've had the same problem every couple of weeks under awesome window manager. I run xcompmgr with only the -c flag. I haven't noticed the issue with virtualbox, but with seemingly random windows leaving a shadow just in their location on the screen. Since it's so infrequent and I haven't noticed a trend in what causes it, I've just been killing and restarting xcompmgr when it happens. I believe I tried running it with -n at some point and had either the same problem or a different one. Maybe I'll try -s next time.

Also, I'm not sure if xcompmgr is being developed any more, so if that's where the bug lies, then ........