Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:06 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:09, Richard Fish wrote: Which ATI do you have? The ATI drivers (fglrx) does not support composite yet. Both of the above options are only for nvidia users, I believe. Enabling the Composite extension

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Zac Slade
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06:44, Iain Buchanan wrote: Screen sections get corrupted, windows are unusable, parts of windows are transparent, old parts of the screen aren't updated (eg, the splash screen is visible long after it's really disappeared) web browsing shows lines of text over

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/15/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this what everyone else sees with translucency? No. I just got a new Dell E1705 with an NVidia Go 7800, and the transparency effects with composite look beautiful. Menus, moving windows, the transitions between inactive and active windows,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:12, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)': On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 February 2006 09:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:41, a tiny voice compelled Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. to write: In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent (or partially transparent) background (and maybe background text color). The WM-wide transparency is handled with the X composite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Kicker and Konsole both support a limited form of transparency. You'll set this limited form up through kicker/koncole specific configurations. In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Roy Wright
Ernie Schroder wrote: I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in KDE 3.5.x? Try enabling the backingstore as suggested on the wiki. That solved the slowness problem for me. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:26, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)': On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:41, a tiny voice compelled Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. to write: In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/14/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aha, thank you for that great explanation. However, I have edited xorg.conf as required with Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection and Option RenderAccel true Option AllowGLXWithComposite true (I have an ati) but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:09, Richard Fish wrote: Which ATI do you have? The ATI drivers (fglrx) does not support composite yet. Both of the above options are only for nvidia users, I believe. Enabling the Composite extension should work for all drivers, it isn't accelerated on fglrx,

[gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) I've just installed KDE for the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: turn on transparency in controll center (Arbeitsfläche