Enabling 3D? Empty tips?

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:41:58 -0800
>> Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 1) This is very new hardware - an Intel DH55HC motherboard coupled
>>> with an i5-661 processor. X is up and functional but I don't know how
>>> to determine within XFCE whether I'm running in framer buffer mode (I
>>> don't think I am) or whether I'm running native, and if native whether
>>> I've enabled everthing I can to get the best graphics performance.
>>> This is not a gaming machine VGA but I do want to get the most out of
>>> it. What can I do to test?
>>
>>
>> On any recent distribution, the autodetected settings and such
>> should be optimal.  If everything seems to be working, then I'd
>> suggest leaving well enough alone.  :-)
>>
>
> Logically that would suggest that if certain effects were on XFCE
> would find them, but if they were off XFCE wouldn't look.
>
> I was trying to see if XFCE could __tell__ me that certain effects,
> like compositing, was working by actually showing me transparent
> windows or something else fancy. So fat everything is very plain. If I
> turn on transparency in terminal I do see my desktop so that much
> works, but am I using everything my graphics adapter - which is new,
> built into the Intel processor, and not well documented yet, is
> capable of? I don't know.

Go to settings->window manager tweaks->compositing to turn it off or on.

~David