From 7d28309a47ccee8fb09d863e606b11d794296bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 19:55:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Stop debug mode from being used without the new backends

Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
---
 src/compton.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/compton.c b/src/compton.c
index 5f4f957..14d50cc 100644
--- a/src/compton.c
+++ b/src/compton.c
@@ -1712,6 +1712,11 @@ static session_t *session_init(int argc, char **argv, Display *dpy,
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (ps->o.debug_mode && !ps->o.experimental_backends) {
+		log_fatal("Debug mode only works with the experimental backends.");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	ps->atoms = init_atoms(ps->c);
 	ps->atoms_wintypes[WINTYPE_UNKNOWN] = 0;
 #define SET_WM_TYPE_ATOM(x)                                                              \