Anti Aliasing in Gnome?

[jibsta]

Hi how can I get gnome to anti alias the 3d effects, they look so ghetto with jaggies everywhere....

If this was answered sorry, every search just brought up text smoothing.

[inobe]

you can do this in nvidia-settings or ati control panel.

example: http://www.itsyourpc.org/duane/files/anti.jpg

i hope my suggestions help

[jibsta]

I have all those settings maxed, they apply to any 3d apps running but not to the enivroment itself.

[inobe]

jibsta the 180.44 driver has a crap load of fixes, i update and there hasn't been a hiccup with desktop affects.

my desk use to crash with the cube using 177's

[jibsta]

Im running the 180.44, they are stable and everything works great but all the 3d stuff is jaggy ....

[inobe]

did you install anything other than the default affects manager.

how do you have the affects setup.

i am not experiencing what your describing.

[jibsta]

Using the default or compiz makes no differencs it seems to me the hardware accel is not using the anti aliasing...

[inobe]

this is the best i can come up with jibsta

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/505/


obviously it's still some sort of nvidia issue, someone did post instructions about reseting compiz.

hope it works out for you

[jibsta]

AHH solved it, had to switch from enhance to force and restart everything...

[inobe]

that's excellent jibsta i am glad it worked for you.

we really appreciate disclosing how you solved the problem, i certainly hope i helped too.

[jibsta]

THanks for the hekp, I think this option should be built into the program and not have to be forced by the nvidia drivers....

[jibsta]

The link you sent me, I originally had the drivers in enhance app settings, i switched them to override app settings but never thought to restart compiz, once i restarted that and the basic desktop effects, everything is smooth as a babys *** :)

[inobe]

that's excellent jibsta i am glad it worked for you.

we really appreciate disclosing how you solved the problem, i certainly hope i helped too.

you may have missed my post, i quoted myself.


and your welcome.

[jibsta]

you may have missed my post, i quoted myself.


and your welcome.

Just saw it and answered it above.

The link you sent me, I originally had the drivers in enhance app settings, i switched them to override app settings but never thought to restart compiz, once i restarted that and the basic desktop effects, everything is smooth as a babys ***

[inobe]

if your nvidia settings don't stick after a reboot' you may need to access nvidia-settings with higher privileges to make them stick.

in terminal do


gksu nvidia-settings

apply settings and no more worries, just be careful in there.

[jibsta]

Ok thanks, one headsup i notice tho, with 16 AA on, my card is staying in full power and not throttling down so if your caring about fan noise or battery life on a laptop this is probably a bad idea.

[inobe]

i will agree with you on that, this will heat up the gpu and draw power, good point jibsta.

in fact i don't think this would be recommended for anything under 6xxx series nvidia card :)