Kwin Effects.

I just installed 11 RC on my main desktop. I compiled the latest nvidia driver and it installed no problem, I went back in to activate the kwin effects and noticed it would not let me, so I went into SAX2 to make sure 3D was on and it was, but greyed out so that I couldn't turn it on or off.. After double checking some things I went back and noticed it said that effects could not be enabled because I didn't have XComposite and XDamage installed. Any ideas as to whats wrong? I know I can do effects as the last driver worked fine, and my card isn't old (8800GTS). It's got to be a problem with SUSE I would imagine, or the nvidia driver.

exact message:

compositing is not supported on your system

Requires X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available[/b]

I just installed 11 RC on my main desktop. I compiled the latest nvidia driver and it installed no problem, I went back in to activate the kwin effects and noticed it would not let me, so I went into SAX2 to make sure 3D was on and it was, but greyed out so that I couldn't turn it on or off.. After double checking some things I went back and noticed it said that effects could not be enabled because I didn't have XComposite and XDamage installed. Any ideas as to whats wrong? I know I can do effects as the last driver worked fine, and my card isn't old (8800GTS). It's got to be a problem with SUSE I would imagine, or the nvidia driver.

exact message:
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Yeah, I got the same thing.

You need to run this commandt:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --composite --allow-glx-with-composite --add-argb-glx-visuals

Optional things to add to the end of that command:

--cool-bits=1 --no-logo

Then restart the X-server with:

sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart

....that should do the trick

That worked, thanks.