[OpenBox] Smoothing moving windows

Hello:
I wondering if it's normal that windows get a little distorted when I move across the screen. In KDE with the 'transparency effect' windows move correctly as a singular um... thing. Can I enable a similar effect in openbox? I don't care for the 'transparency' (it's an old laptop and I'm going for a very minimalistic setup), but it's quite annoying windows get distorted (with artifacts?) when you move them.
If it's relevant:
-Dell Latitude x300 (1.5Ghz Pentium M, 1GB DDR Ram, 80GB HDD)
-Arch fully updated.
-No testing, no AUR (yet).
-Intel 855GM Integrated Graphics
-GFX Driver: xf86-video-intel
- Xorg conf by "Xorg -configure" followed by "cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Thanks !

Do you have this distorted thing with any windows or only in console like urxtv?
You can try installing [url=http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22873]xcompmgr-dana[url].
Last edited by n0dix (2010-02-27 19:01:21)

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