I have finally got XGK working on SUSE 10.1 but I am confused that when I now set the Windows config to say show 4 windows as soon as I save it it goes back to one window. I can rotate the main window as a cube but I would have presumed that if I had 4 windows I could add one to each a different face of the cube. Am I missing something or does the XGL stuff stop the multiple windows ------------------- Ron Wilson I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose." -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Sat, 08 Jul, 2006 at 19:03:41 +1200, Ron Wilson wrote:
I have finally got XGK working on SUSE 10.1 but I am confused that when I now set the Windows config to say show 4 windows as soon as I save it it goes back to one window. I can rotate the main window as a cube but I would have presumed that if I had 4 windows I could add one to each a different face of the cube. Am I missing something or does the XGL stuff stop the multiple windows
I presume you mean multiple desktops? In any case; Yes, Xgl stops your usual multiple desktops. But then you get *one* desktop, which is X (4 by default) times as wide in its stead. So the net result is more or less the same; you have X "workspaces". HTH /Jon -- YMMV -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
I installed it today as well and did the same "hmmm" when I noticed my 4 desktops replaced by one. The only real issue I have had with it is that KDE seems rather unstable now and when I boot my computer it is a "capshoot" as to which services will fail to start. In my panel I have 8 items that are to start on boot however now sometimes kinternet will be missing, or klipper, quite often profile chooser is absent. Each time I boot up I have to do a head count as to who decided to show up and who's absent. Any way that I can make sure these all start? Thanks Dave On Saturday 08 July 2006 7:18 pm, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jul, 2006 at 19:03:41 +1200, Ron Wilson wrote:
I have finally got XGK working on SUSE 10.1 but I am confused that when I now set the Windows config to say show 4 windows as soon as I save it it goes back to one window. I can rotate the main window as a cube but I would have presumed that if I had 4 windows I could add one to each a different face of the cube. Am I missing something or does the XGL stuff stop the multiple windows
I presume you mean multiple desktops?
In any case; Yes, Xgl stops your usual multiple desktops. But then you get *one* desktop, which is X (4 by default) times as wide in its stead.
So the net result is more or less the same; you have X "workspaces".
HTH /Jon
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On Sat, 08 Jul, 2006 at 19:47:46 +1200, Dave Waddling wrote:
I installed it today as well and did the same "hmmm" when I noticed my 4 desktops replaced by one. The only real issue I have had with it is that KDE seems rather unstable now and when I boot my computer it is a "capshoot" as to which services will fail to start. In my panel I have 8 items that are to start on boot however now sometimes kinternet will be missing, or klipper, quite often profile chooser is absent. Each time I boot up I have to do a head count as to who decided to show up and who's absent. Any way that I can make sure these all start?
Dunno :P I have very little actual experience with Xgl, and that's been with Gnome. One of these days I may actually get around to trying it out on the laptop (the only machine I have with a 3D card... ATI unfortunately...) and that's all KDE. Basically I'm not all that excited about Xgl, not in it's current form anyway... I mean... sure it's neat, but until the apps themselves become 3D-aware, the only real useability addition, IMHO, is the "zoom-out" function. /Jon -- YMMV -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 08 July 2006 03:47 am, Dave Waddling wrote:
I installed it today as well and did the same "hmmm" when I noticed my 4 desktops replaced by one. The only real issue I have had with it is that KDE seems rather unstable now and when I boot my computer it is a "capshoot" as to which services will fail to start. In my panel I have 8 items that are to start on boot however now sometimes kinternet will be missing, or klipper, quite often profile chooser is absent. Each time I boot up I have to do a head count as to who decided to show up and who's absent. Any way that I can make sure these all start?
Thanks Dave
I had similar problems when I followed an older set of instructions and installed the provided packages. The instructions at: http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Xgl_on_SUSE_Linux include a link to updated packages which have worked great for me on several PCs. BTW, I just removed the pager from the panel on my systems. -- Louis Richards -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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