GNU/Linux February Desktops

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darkz

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I... want... drop shadow....

I am now running Fedora 3, it has xorg right?  Do some video cards not support it?  How can I config it?  I need eye candy...

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Yes, it probably has. You need xcompmgr, for that stuff. I don't know about the cards - I have a nVidia GeForce FX 5200, and it renders these shadows damn fast, no performance loss at all (stability loss and font problems :cry:). My xcompmgr "config" 

xcompmgr -t -6 -l -12 -nc -r 8 -F -o .60

If you have nVidia card with drivers installed, and you want to enable composite extension, then you should do the following:

In the Nvidia driver section add the line

    Option "RenderAccel" "true"

Add the following section:

    Section "Extensions"

    Option "Composite" "Enable"

    EndSection

and thats it :ninja:

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Sav

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You are taunting me, aren't you?  ;)

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Yes :whistle: :D

xcompmgr users! please reply if you have any font problems. see my post - this is really freaking me out. btw I also can't play quake3 with composite loaded - launching quake just causes X server crash.

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I don't have any problem with font at all, but I can only use the composite for about 30min, I think I've got a memory leak, everything goes so slow, scrolling, openning a windows, etc...

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ChrisArr

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Doesn't anyone else use enlightenment around here? LOL

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I do. Just gimme a few and I will have a shot of my laptop running it (I am just installing as I figured out a way around all the freezing at install when probing the PCMCIA ports).

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darkz

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I don't have any problem with font at all, but I can only use the composite for about 30min, I think I've got a memory leak, everything goes so slow, scrolling, openning a windows, etc...

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Maybe it sounds funny, but my system seems to be faster with composite loaded :wacko:. I mean that opening new windows etc. is faster. I guess it has something to do with render accel.

P.S. Do you use any custom fonts?

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darkz

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And here's Enlightenment. (It's an oldish laptop - a Satellite 320CDS with a P233MMX, 64MB RAM, 1GB HDD - so nothing whizzbang and fancy, MOTIF4LIFE)

Bevelfree theme, Netscape 4.8, Ted the Linux Rich Text Processor 2.17

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Whow, cool!

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Evolution

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Hey coxis, where did you get the icons, and how did you colour the entire kde taskbar? And how do you remove the partition borders, I used to know how to do it, but I forgot?

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