On Friday 20 March 2009 3:41:30 am Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:03 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Thursday 19 March 2009 5:45:17 am Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > > > I've seen that in notify-osd source there are some calls that contains > > > the name "blur". Does it blur for you? Maybe it's a problem of my > > > video card... > > > > It can only do the dimming/blurring if you use a compositing window manager > > like Compiz, or if you turn on compositing in KWin or Metacity. > > I suspect that it can only blur while using Compiz (I don't remember > bumping into a blur plugin in kwin's kontrol kentre, and even if kwin > supports blur I'm not sure whether it uses the same X flags that compiz > uses). This would also require Compiz's blur plugin to (a) be enabled, > and (b) be running on a card with enough features to support it. There > are 3 blur modes and all but the "MipMap" one require pixel shaders > IIRC. Your card may not have these.
I'm pretty sure that I had working blur on those when I was using KWin's compositing. Though it seems KWin's compositing won't work on my card right now... -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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