SMplayer becomes invisible with xcompmgr-git and xmonad

I encountered a very weird problem.
My X desktop is based on xcompmgr-git (20080703-1) and xmonad (0.7-1)
If I launch SMPlayer (0.6.1-1) ) from dmenu, the window becomes completely invisible, or I should say it becomes 100% transparent. SMPlayer becomes visible and runs great after I killed xcompmgr.
The weird part is that this problem is gone if I launch SMPlayer from a console (urxvt).
Can some one explain to what went wrong with the transparency setting of SMPlayer.
Many thanks

yackeroeni wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to get games to work on my new setup and have problems running games in fullscreen mode.
I can hear the sound of the game, but am unable to see it or, as far as I know, interact with it
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