* On Sat Apr-02-2005 at 09:35:50 PM +0100, Mike Williams said: > On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:07, Ian K wrote: > > Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. > > Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? > > KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? [snip] > I then added the following to get proper transparency on my laptop > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Enable" > Option "RENDER" "Enable" > EndSection
If you run an Nvidia card I highly recommend the RenderAccel option as
well. (It enables hardware rendering acceleration which greatly speeds
your translucent X up) Here's the device section from my xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce4 MX440"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 65536
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "8"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
EndSection
You will most likely have problems with transparency since it is still a
new extension and is _not_ stable, yet. You may experience lock ups, but
the worst effects for me are mplayer troubles (-vo x11 won't let me go
full screen, boo) and weird drawing of my panel sometimes. (resizing
usually brings out that effect)
But still, it's nice to turn composite on every now and then for some
sweet eye candy. :) ... not just xfwm4, xfce4-panel and xfce4-iconbox
make use of it as well.
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