I demand that Yves-Alexis Perez may or may not have written... > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:00 +0200, Christophe Dongieux wrote: [snip] >> I have a laptop with a S3 Savage/IX-MV graphical card and xorg-7.0 (I >> dist-upgraded yesterday). I enabled the true transparency with the >> composite extension, but in xfce4, the 'Compositing Manager' tab is not >> present; so I can't test transparency with xfce4. It's weird, because the >> true transparency is working with KDE; so it's not a problem with my >> card...
> What does ~/.xsession-errors says? > You can try to run xfwm4 from a terminal, too. There is an autodetection of > RENDER extension speed which is run at xfwm4 start. If it's too slow, > composite is disabled. If you want to force compositing, you can start xfwm > with: xfwm4 --compositor=on Or you can try switching from XAA to EXA. Doing so here lets the speed check succeed, allowing the compositor to be enabled automatically: Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon 9200" Driver "Radeon" ... Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" ... EndSection (Check the man page for your card's driver.) -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling "I'm not disappointed - just disappointed." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]