On Wednesday 26 December 2007 20:50:25 Jerry Houston wrote:
> According to one of my books that's specific to SuSE 10.3, I've done all
> that's necessary to enable Xgl and Compiz, and the Gnome desktop effects
> module confirms that my graphics card is suitable, that 3-D is enabled.
>
> In KDE, I'm able to run the configuration tool, and it appears to be
> working.  However, I can't get a Compiz session started.  When I go to
> the appropriate place in personal settings to choose a session manager,
> only kwin appears, in a combo box that is grayed and disabled.
>
> Is there some extra step that's commonly overlooked, that makes Compiz
> show up in the session manager selections?

It will show up in the dropdown box if

a) compiz is installed
b) GL is enabled
c) GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is present

c) is the tricky one. The nvidia driver supports it, and I'm told the ATI 
driver does too, but only if you have a very new card. Otherwise you'll have 
to run Xgl

Anders

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