KDE Transparency & Shadows [SOLVED]

vipernicus · Last edited by vipernicus on Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

Everything works great with this enabled, except for one thing, when I try to right click in konqueror, I have no menu. When I right click on desktop, I have a menu. When I click on K Menu, I have a menu. Why is it that in konqueror, I have no right click menu?

tomvollerthun · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 316

The Composite extension, which is used by transparency and shadow effects, is very experimental and known to behave badly. It is more than common that things break when it is used. You are lucky that it didn't freeze your box completely
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vipernicus · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject:

I know. And since all things work well, and look nice, and at a reasonable speed; I thought I would exploit it.

tomvollerthun · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 316

Yes, why shouldn't you.
Does the menu work when the extension is not used?

If you are positive that it is the extension's fault, then you can be quite sure that there's no help but try to hack away till it's gone.
Not that I'm the one to decide that, though...
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jdgill0 · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject:

The disappearance of menus seems a very common problem. Sometimes my K-menu would come up, sometimes it would not. Invariably everytime I have tried transparency I have ended up with a frozen desktop

... thing is that KDE doesn't really seem to like it sometimes when you kill it versus logging out properly, hence I am staying away from transparency for now I suppose. The transparency and shadow effects do look cool though.
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vipernicus · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: trans & shad

It's weird, because, I can disable all shadows and transparencies, but leave the option enabled, and still have no menu. Disable option, and I will have the menu. Hehe, I think I just figured that it is coming up as 100% transparent, because I can click on the empty space where it should be and it will use what invisible option i clicked.

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FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

i just posted something like this last night to no avail

last time i set up xtranparncy everything worked great. then i got new hds, and where 'Option "AllowGLxWithCompoisit' 'true'" and 'Option 'RenderAccel' "true"' got everything working nice last time (menu's appeared and composite used HW acceration), this time they did exactly nothing.

my best guess is that it has to do with not using VIDEO_CARD= in make.conf for me geforce. i think i remember doing that last time.

I notice I get way more X crashes, and much worse behaivior now that it isnt working with 3D (althought they both work independantly)

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

i didnt solve my problem, but i think i solved yours. i was looking over the gentoo nvidia docs, and remembered i had forgot to buil "Support for MTRR Devices into my kernel.

no my kmenu works great but composite still doesnt use hw acceleration. remains to be seen if its less crahy

vipernicus · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject: mtrr

I have mtrr enabled, everything is working perfectly, except right click menu in konqueror, it is 100% transparent for some reason. I wonder if there is a bug at kde.org about this?

nxsty · Veteran Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1556 Location: .se

Try the fdo xserver, it has much updated composite support. I hope they merge it with x.org before 6.9!

http://xserver.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXserver

vipernicus · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject: fdo

Um, that looks like it is seperate from xorg, and it doesn't support any xorg drivers. sounds like a sure fire winner for fixing my issues! hehe, j/k.

vipernicus · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: transparency

Wow, it is hard to believe that no one else has this problem, I wonder if it has to do with the KDE Improvements patch I am using as well...

jdgill0 · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: transparency

vipernicus · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: Score!

SOLVED! I disabled all KDE Software effects, and then enabled Trans and Shadows and everything works perfect, and even faster than before!