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mihai451

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Thursday, June 9th 2005, 8:45am

shadows in kde3.4

Hi there,
I have Suse 9.3 with kde3.4 and I wanna enable the nice shadows under windows. I modified xorg.conf adding the stuff in Section "Extensions". I was able to enable the shadows, however everything slowed down a lot. Took ages to drag a window form one location to another. My question is:

Is it something that I overlooked? Do I have to patch something (e.g. kwin,...)? I remotely heard about Kcompmgr or something like that. No idea what that is. I know xcompmgr. How can I use the shadows (no need of transparency) without slowing my system down?

Thank alot for any help.

m451

BTW: 3.7GHz, 1GB RAM, 128Mb video - NVidia GEForce 6600GT

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Saturday, June 11th 2005, 10:40pm

RE: shadows in kde3.4

In you xorg.conf, you need to enable RenderAccel under your nvidia "device" section.

It should read

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Option       "RenderAccel" "true"


Do not use xcompmgr because KDE 3.4 has its own. Use kompmgr. Start it with Alt+F2, and it should run everytime you start KDE, after you go into the Control Center and enable drop shadows.

Also, if you want games, you'll need to enable:

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Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"


I'm using it right now, and it's quick and stable. The only real drawback is that xvideo doesn't work. You'll have to use X11 video, which is a bit slower.

If you still need help, let me know.

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Wednesday, June 15th 2005, 2:53pm

RE: shadows in kde3.4

Doesn't work. Or at least I don't know how to enable the shadowing. My "Device" section now looks like this

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Section "Device"
 BoardName    "GeForce 6600 GT"
  BusID        "3:0:0"
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "RenderAccel" "true"
  Screen       0
  Option       "Rotate" "off"
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection


I typed kompmgr in a console just to see what's happening. It says:

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trying '/home/morariu/.xcompmgrrc' as configfile
finished parsing the config file
No composite extension


My xcompmgrrc looks like

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[xcompmgr]
Compmode=CompClientShadows
DisableARGB=false
FadeInStep=0.02
FadeOutStep=0.07
FadeTrans=false
FadeWindows=true
ShadowColor=0x000000
ShadowOffsetX=0
ShadowOffsetY=-80
ShadowRadius=6


I don't know what's the problem
Thanks for your help in the first place.

mihai451

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Monday, June 20th 2005, 11:15am

yeah, working baby

Hei, its working now like a charm.

Stupid me I forgot to enable the composite options.
Thanks alot.
M.