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Silentsand74
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] KDE - shell behavior: no transparency |
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Hello,
I cannot set the transparency when I try to change appearance in profiles. When I try to do so I get a warning in that window:
| Code: | | The colour scheme has a transparent background which does not appear to be supported on your desktop. |
I have an Intel Graphic Accelerator 950 on that laptop. When I had KDE 3.5 I had never any problems with it. I don't think that my graphic card is too weak to support that. Oh maybe transparency mode requires pixel shader but I don't think so.
Any ideas how to fix it?
KDE version - 4.0.5
QT version - 4.4.0_rc1
mesa version - 6.5.1-r1
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ltboy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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KDE 4 Uses real transparency meaning that you won't see your desktop background you'll see the windows behind your konsole and all that fun stuff. I have the same "video accelerator" and it works fin for me you just have to enable the X11 Composite extension in your xorg.conf
Most of the time you just need to put in the below.
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Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
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NOTE: You may also need to add the 'xcomposite' use flag to your make.conf and do an 'emerge -avuDN world' in order to make everything work...
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widremann
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| And also enable desktop effects for KWin. You could also try using xcompmgr or something like that. |
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ltboy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You could also try using xcompmgr or something like that. |
Not Really Relevant for KDE 4 as it already has much more functionality than xcompmgr. I would however recommend upgrading to KDE 4.1.x as that is the current official release and it has much more of the XComposite functionallity enabled.
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Silentsand74
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Emerging kde-meta-4.1.2 and enabling this effect in system setting helped.
Now it's working fine.
Thank You  . |
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