Shape the window when there is no compositor
On Xfce with compositing off, X11 has no alpha to blend against, so the transparent background came out as a black box around the cat. When a window comes up without an alpha channel, TNCat now cuts the window down to the pixels the drawing covers, using the X11 shape extension, and refreshes that 15 times a second so it follows the animation. A sitting cat in a 120 x 106 window comes out as 96 rectangles over 29 percent of the window, so most of the box is gone. Edges are harder than with a compositor, one bit per pixel, and the log says so and names the Xfce setting that gives smooth ones instead. The image-to-rectangles step is platform independent and folds every device row into its window row, which both halves the rectangle count on a scaled display and keeps a pixel that is opaque in only one of them. xcb and xcb-shape are picked up through pkg-config on Unix and the build still works without them. Opaque mode now paints a neutral card rather than the coat colour. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ qt_add_executable(tncat
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src/catcontroller.h src/catcontroller.cpp
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src/appsettings.h src/appsettings.cpp
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src/platforminfo.h src/platforminfo.cpp
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src/windowshape.h src/windowshape.cpp
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)
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target_include_directories(tncat PRIVATE src)
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@@ -38,6 +39,24 @@ qt_add_qml_module(tncat
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target_link_libraries(tncat PRIVATE
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Qt6::Core Qt6::Gui Qt6::Quick Qt6::QuickShapes)
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# Without a compositor, X11 renders a transparent background as black. The
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# shape extension is the way out: it cuts the window down to the cat itself.
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# Both libraries ship with X11 and Qt's own xcb plugin already uses them.
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if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
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find_package(PkgConfig QUIET)
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if(PkgConfig_FOUND)
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pkg_check_modules(TNCAT_XCB IMPORTED_TARGET xcb xcb-shape)
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endif()
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if(TARGET PkgConfig::TNCAT_XCB)
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target_link_libraries(tncat PRIVATE PkgConfig::TNCAT_XCB)
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target_compile_definitions(tncat PRIVATE TNCAT_HAVE_XCB_SHAPE)
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else()
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message(STATUS "TNCat: xcb-shape not found. Without a compositor the cat "
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"will sit in a black box; install libxcb-shape0-dev or "
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"xcb-util-dev and reconfigure.")
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endif()
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endif()
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set_target_properties(tncat PROPERTIES
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MACOSX_BUNDLE TRUE
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MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Info.plist.in
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