gnome transparencies

[invitro]

Yes and yes. It's good for pretty screenshots and that is it.

Buggy - yes
Laggy - depends

I didn't have any speed problems with Nvidia drivers and HWAccel (or whatever it's called) turned on.

[vassalle]

Buggy - yes
Laggy - depends

I didn't have any speed problems with Nvidia drivers and HWAccel (or whatever it's called) turned on.

HWAccel ? what is that?

[TravisNewman]

RenderAccel? That's the only thing I can think of.

[LongTooth]

How does one use this option? How to set it?

I just did a sudo apt-cache search xcompmgr transset. No return on this query. Where can I get it? Would I have to add a repository?

And last but not least, once I get it, how do I use it? Thanks.

[invitro]

RenderAccel? That's the only thing I can think of.

Of course I meant RenderAccel (blame the early hour)!

It's an option available only to those with Nvidia cards and the proprietary nvidia driver. Google it and you will find how to use it!

[LongTooth]

I've done some searching but still can't fine how to enable this feature. Can anyone give us a few pointers. According to the some post, it buggy and slows down your machine. I'd still like to give it a shot. So along with instructions on how to use it, don't forget the instructions on how to turn it off. Thannks.

[Gary Powers]

It has not worked for me yet , but I was told to enter "transset" at the command line and then click on the desired window. If you find the correct way, let us know.

Gary

[LongTooth]

Well, I did the same thing and I do get the '+' but when I click on a window...nothing. I would have expected to configure my system to have this on when I open an app, be that the the browser or what ever. I'd like some comments from someone who's used it. Thanks.

[vik]

Are you sure you're running "transset <transparency_value>" ? Usually doing transset 0.7 gives me a nice transparent window. Before I run trannsset, I run xcompmgr -c to start up the composite manager.

Make sure you have this somewhere in your xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Also, if you are using the nvidia binary chipset driver, add these lines in your Section "Device":

Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"

It goes extremely slow on my ati card since the fglrx driver disables DRI if composite is enabled

[telmo]

I just find it too damn buggy!
(using ATI driver 3D enabled)