On 26Jan2008 21:01, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Actually, everything seems to check out okay after
| initial installation, but I get the following
| error message when trying to run compiz from a
| terminal:
|
| No composite extension
|
| What does this mean?
It means that your X server does not have the Composite X11 extension
available. Add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
and restart your X1 server. Be aware that if you have an old distribution
you may not have this. If you have a modern one it will be there but on
your video card there is probably no hardware support. This means it will
all be done in software, and it will all work. But it will be Very Slow.
I have a laptop like this - I'm typing on it right now - I can turn on the
Composite extension and make my terminals genuinely transparent, but it is
really painful because my video card also does not have hardware support for
this.
At work I have a higher end graphics card and do run with the composite
extension.
Cheers,
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