making the compositor work?

Sami Samhuri sami at no-eff-eks.com
Sun Nov 28 06:33:18 CET 2004


* On Sat Nov-27-2004 at 09:25:25 PM -0800, Net Llama! said:
> On 11/27/2004 09:25 PM, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> >* On Sat Nov-27-2004 at 10:02:22 AM -0800, Net Llama! said:
> >
> >>I built xfwm4 (from RC1) with the compositor option, however i can't 
> >>figure out how to make it work, in terms of transparency.  i added the 
> >>relevant section to xorg.conf, and i'm seeing the drop shadows, but i'm 
> >>more interested in transparency than shadows.  am i missing something?
> >
> >
> >And if you have an nvidia card, be sure to add this to the Device
> >section for your card:
> >
> >    Option  "RenderAccel"   "true"
> >
> >I just discovered this today. It's nice to have such a quick, light,
> >user-friendly desktop with this level of eye candy.
> 
> I assume this option requires the nvidia driver instead of the xorg?

I can't say I am 100% sure, as I have only ever used nvidia's drivers,
but I would guess it requires them.

-- 
Sami Samhuri
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