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j0elbYte
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 Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:12 am Post subject: Transparency in KDE |
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What to do to make KDE's new shadow/trans. functions to take effect? Xorg is setup and xcompmgr works out as supposed (including the frequent crashing)
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j0elbYte
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Yes.. Sorry i didnt mentioned that. The problem is that there is no transparency after configuring this.
It finds the composit-extension but it doesn't use it
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| You need to restart KDE after changing that setting in my experience. Just ending session and logging back in did it for me (I use KDM logins). |
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j0elbYte
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Hm haven't tried that. But u still have to launch xcompmgr first, right?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| j0elbYte wrote: | | Hm haven't tried that. But u still have to launch xcompmgr first, right? |
nope, composite support is in the KDE windowmanager itself (kwin) - no need to use xcompmgr or transset at all
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j0elbYte
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Hm ok! News to me. Thanks alot, all three of you 
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| j0elbYte wrote: | | Hm ok! News to me. Thanks alot, all three of you |
Few days ago I tried to use it, but every time I start kde with translutency support, it hanges in the middle of loading process... Has somebody else encountered this problem?
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j0elbYte
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Hm seems ok here. During kde's startup process there are som flickering, thats all
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| _troll_ wrote: | | j0elbYte wrote: | | Hm ok! News to me. Thanks alot, all three of you |
Few days ago I tried to use it, but every time I start kde with translutency support, it hanges in the middle of loading process... Has somebody else encountered this problem? |
No.
It's usable on my box, but very, very barely. Window redraws are extremely slow. In the end, I had to turn it off.  |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | | _troll_ wrote: | | j0elbYte wrote: | | Hm ok! News to me. Thanks alot, all three of you |
Few days ago I tried to use it, but every time I start kde with translutency support, it hanges in the middle of loading process... Has somebody else encountered this problem? |
No.
It's usable on my box, but very, very barely. Window redraws are extremely slow. In the end, I had to turn it off. |
check your settings in xorg.conf.
ensure you use a good driver (the nvidia driver for a nvidia card, not the native riva driver) and Option "RenderAccel" "true" is there... makes a big difference. |
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| superstoned wrote: | | kimchi_sg wrote: | | _troll_ wrote: | | j0elbYte wrote: | | Hm ok! News to me. Thanks alot, all three of you |
Few days ago I tried to use it, but every time I start kde with translutency support, it hanges in the middle of loading process... Has somebody else encountered this problem? |
No.
It's usable on my box, but very, very barely. Window redraws are extremely slow. In the end, I had to turn it off. |
check your settings in xorg.conf.
ensure you use a good driver (the nvidia driver for a nvidia card, not the native riva driver) and Option "RenderAccel" "true" is there... makes a big difference. |
indeed, this is very important if your using an Nvidia card. You might also want to turn off the shadows while you move windows/resize windows. Especially that is very laggy here.
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| superstoned wrote: | check your settings in xorg.conf.
ensure you use a good driver (the nvidia driver for a nvidia card, not the native riva driver) and Option "RenderAccel" "true" is there... makes a big difference. |
xcompmgr is working as it should on my nvidia. so this isn't that 
vrln: I'll try hint with setting off shadows.... thx
btw. I haven't said that before - my mistake.... - I'm using kde/qt ebuilds from forum (the ones 'improved'). thats why I'm not sending this bug report to bugzilla or kde bugs....
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