Enabling 3D? Empty tips?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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

Thanks. Exactly what I was after. I think that *possibly* the
Compositor tab might not have been there earlier until I made some
changes to my xorg.conf file, but it's there now. The features seem to
be working.

Cheers,
Mark