Xcompmgr draws trailing shadow outlines without the -f flag

Question

I have been fiddling around with xcompmgr, and so far its been pretty cool, i like being able to see through my terminals and fading effects were cool for a while, but i noticed that after long periods of use it would start bashing X and i would get weird stuttering till i killed it. Ive read that this has to do with a memory leak in xcompmgr's fade option.
Basically i want to get rid of fade, but whenever i turn it off, i get weird trailing shadow outlines. In addition to the trailing shadows i also get shadows on my terminal that i have set as part of my background (which makes it look quite ugly).
Is there anyone who knows how to fix this trailing shadow problem short of turning on fade effects?
I have an nvidia geforcego 7700 if that helps at all.
Thanks for any help provided.
Edit: actually an alternative composite manager for openbox would be fine too, i just want my transparency and shadows with no troubles
Last edited by Kruppe (2008-10-23 21:17:42)

Answer 1

continuation of logs:
M  PfStatDisconnect: disconnect statistics
M  Entering TH_CALLHOOKS
M  ThCallHooks: call hook >BtcCallLgCl< for event BEFORE_DUMP
M  ThCallHooks: call hook >ThrSaveSPAFields< for event BEFORE_DUMP
M  *** ERROR => ThrSaveSPAFields: no valid thr_wpadm [thxxrun1.c   723]
M  *** ERROR => ThCallHooks: event handler ThrSaveSPAFields for event BEFORE_DUMP failed [thxxtool3.c  261]
M  Entering ThSetStatError
M  ThIErrHandle: do not call ThrCoreInfo (no_core_info=0, in_dynp_env=0)
M  Entering ThReadDetachMode
M  call ThrShutDown (1)...
M  ***LOG Q02=> wp_halt, WPStop (Workproc 3 24796) [dpnttool.c   333]