Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.com>]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 08:11, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)':
> aha, thank you for that great explanation.  However, I have edited
> xorg.conf as required with
>
> Section "Extensions"
>    Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
> and
>
> Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
>
> (I have an ati) but I still get the control centre message about
> translucency not available...  (of course, I restarted X :)  Also, is
> there supposed to be a command called kompmgr? I can't locate it.

Yeah, kompmgr is the KDE-ized version of xcompmgr.  You may have to set a 
USE flag to get it installed.  Are you using the monolithic ebuild (kde), 
metapackage (kde-meta), or some other set of packages?

I'm using the metapackage and I get kompmgr like so:
# equery b $(which kompmgr)
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kompmgr in *... ]
kde-base/kwin-3.5.1 (/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kompmgr)
# emerge -pv '=kde-base/kwin-3.5.1'

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kwin-3.5.1  USE="arts kdeenablefinal xcomposite 
xinerama -debug" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

I bet 'xcomposite' is the critical USE flag.

Also, I would suggest your turn on the backing store.  It's another 
modification to xorg.conf, but it should pay off with less CPU usage.  The 
gentoo wiki should provide instructions on exactly how to modify your 
xorg.conf.

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