On Friday 02 May 2008 17:25, Albertson, Brett wrote:
> So, I've gotten KDE 4.x compiled and running on my personal Sun
> workstation (thanks Adriaan, Luc, and Stefan). One thing I noticed is
> that transparency is disabled in konsole. Isn't this supported by
> XRender? According to the logs, XRender seemed to be detected during
> the build process. Even stranger, ldd shows that konsole is linked with
> it. Any ideas why?
Does konsole even do its own transparency in KDE4? I've seen it being
transparent and just assumed it was kwin doing its compositing tricks.
The transparency and compositing code needs a good hard look at: even on my
home system, with nvidia drivers and whatever nastiness is delivered with
nv83, I don't get kwin doing effects because the necessary X extensions
(Damage, Render) are missing. So this is one you can hunt down and nail
yourself (just start looking for transparency code in Konsole itself, bool
transparencyAvailable = KWindowSystem::compositingActive() for instance and
then figuring out what that is returning and why).
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