Does anyone have xgl working with KDE? If so, is it stable, worth the effort to setup, etc?
I've played with it on a nVidia card and KDE. It works... but... at this point, other that the "Gee Whiz" factor, I don't see lot of value in it. It looks very cool.. and I definitely enable it when I want to show off what Linux/SUSE is capable of to my Windows-weenie friends... but... the actualy value in jelly windows or being able to play a video around the corner of two desktops is kinda low. One thing I'm looking forward to with XGL is the window transparancy thing... being able to adjust the transparancy of a particualr window with the scroll wheel is very useful to me. As others have pointed out, OpenGL based stuff complains that it cannot run - and games running in Cedega dont' start up. I've also had problems with the menus on some applications - like OpenOffice - disapearing or being blank while I've been using XGL. The whole XGL thing is very immature, but also very cool... :-) You can look here for some instructions on getting XGL/Comwiz working with KDE/nVidia.... http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17174.html and here: http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl C.