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Cameron Seader

1 Dec 2005 1 Dec '05

18:57

Greetings, How do you enable the translucency, I have gone into the Control Center under Desktop > Window Behavior and enabled it there, but what else needs to be done, because that apparently does not do it. -Cameron

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Christoph Thiel

1 Dec 1 Dec

19:14

New subject: [opensuse] KDE translucency enablement

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Cameron Seader wrote:

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How do you enable the translucency, I have gone into the Control Center under Desktop > Window Behavior and enabled it there, but what else needs to be done, because that apparently does not do it.

I guess you are trying to get the Xorg Composite extension to work, which needs to be done in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in addition to the KDE settings. Note: A 3D accelerated graphics card is highly recommended + Composite might be quite broken ;) Anyway, add Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, restart your X-server and log into KDE. Regards Christoph

Cameron Seader

19:53

New subject: [opensuse] KDE translucency enablement

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2005 at 12:14 pm, in message , cthiel@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Cameron Seader wrote:

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How do you enable the translucency, I have gone into the Control Center under Desktop > Window Behavior and enabled it there, but what else needs to be done, because that apparently does not do it.

I guess you are trying to get the Xorg Composite extension to work, which needs to be done in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in addition to the KDE settings. Note: A 3D accelerated graphics card is highly recommended + Composite might be quite broken ;)

Anyway, add

Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection

Yeah, this does not work at all, I wonder if Nvidia has a specific setting for this?

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to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, restart your X- server and log into KDE.

Regards Christoph

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Marcus Rueckert

20:02

New subject: [opensuse] KDE translucency enablement

On 2005-12-01 11:57:29 -0700, Cameron Seader wrote:

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How do you enable the translucency, I have gone into the Control Center under Desktop > Window Behavior and enabled it there, but what else needs to be done, because that apparently does not do it.

some kind of translucency you get with "Appearance & Themes" -> style -> effect -> menu effect -> "make translucent" below you can set the "menu translucency type" try Xrender Blend. hope this helps darix

R'twick Niceorgaw

20:04

New subject: [opensuse] KDE translucency enablement

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Anyway, add

Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection

Yeah, this does not work at all, I wonder if Nvidia has a specific setting for this?

You need to comment out glx. I guess glx with composite doesn't work on Nvidia cards (atleast for me). - -R'twick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDj1dRsC5uXZQ9q2URAhvpAJ4qOuVkSHeNGDF0qSfZGc7pB6JvfwCeOvM1 jMsd/pvtqw2w9MdvYsc1AeU= =VpnQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dimych

20:08

New subject: [opensuse] KDE translucency enablement

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2005 at 12:14 pm, in message , cthiel@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Cameron Seader wrote:

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How do you enable the translucency, I have gone [snip] [snip] into the Control Center Anyway, add

Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection

Yeah, this does not work at all, I wonder if Nvidia has a specific setting for this?

[snip] Actually it does... NVidia driver disables "glx" by default when you enable composite. To enable it add ... Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true". ... to the nvidia device config in xorg.conf (beware that this is very unstable - I've experienced so many problems in high resolution/high color modes, that I've decided not to use translucency - but I have to admit it looks really cool :) ) Good luck Dmitry

Jorge Luis Arzola

21:22

Hi: On 12/1/05, Christoph Thiel wrote:

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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Cameron Seader wrote:

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How do you enable the translucency, I have gone into the Control Center under Desktop > Window Behavior and enabled it there, but what else needs to be done, because that apparently does not do it.

I guess you are trying to get the Xorg Composite extension to work, which needs to be done in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in addition to the KDE settings. Note: A 3D accelerated graphics card is highly recommended + Composite might be quite broken ;)

Anyway, add

Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection

to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, restart your X-server and log into KDE.

Regards Christoph

In adition to this, you must install a program called "transset ", which is part of SUSE 10.0...please do not ask me(cause I do not know exactly) which version(boxed , eval, OSS, or my two DVD own SUSE distro, made fron the ftp, java and extra repos mixed together...jejeje :) cheers jorge

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Christoph Thiel

22:28

New subject: [opensuse] Re: KDE translucency enablement

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jorge Luis Arzola wrote: [...]

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In adition to this, you must install a program called "transset ", which is part of SUSE 10.0...please do not ask me(cause I do not know exactly) which version(boxed , eval, OSS, or my two DVD own SUSE distro, made fron the ftp, java and extra repos mixed together...jejeje :)

If I get it right, you won't need that package, because KDE implements its own composite / transparency manager, that takes care of the thinks transset change/trigger ;) Regards Christoph

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