I just installed Suse 12.3 in VMWare Workstation 9.02. When I go to enable the desktop effects, such as wobbly windows or animated cube, I get an error saying that they couldn’t be enabled because of OpenGL. I have installed the vmware tools from my vmware workstation and not the ones in the repo. Any ideas?
On 2013-03-27 22:36, damion 666 wrote:
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> I just installed Suse 12.3 in VMWare Workstation 9.02. When I go to
> enable the desktop effects, such as wobbly windows or animated cube, I
> get an error saying that they couldn’t be enabled because of OpenGL. I
> have installed the vmware tools from my vmware workstation and not the
> ones in the repo. Any ideas?
Please use the report button below to ask a moderator to move this to
the virtualization sub-forum.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I am already here 
This one is CLOSED and will be moved to Virtualization.
Moved from Applications and open again.
Not sure if this is the issue but with NVIDIA drivers on my system my video card did not do direct rendering until I added all users to the video group. Once that was done VMware Player (what I’m using) no longer warned of lack of 3d driver support. Check that your driver is setup correctly and you have full video driver support.
Bob
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bob@Osprey
Since this is a virtual machine, it uses the virtual machines video driver and not the native driver for the video card.
http://76.171.109.197/vmwgfx.png
I added my user to the video group, no change.
On 2013-04-03 20:06, damion 666 wrote:
> Since this is a virtual machine, it uses the virtual machines video
> driver and not the native driver for the video card.
I assume he means on the host, not the guest.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
The host is irrelevant. I am running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate with VMware Workstation 9.0.2 with an ATI HD3xxx card. Like I said, Suse 12.2 working running in vmware on a windows host. The guest shouldn’t even be aware of the host card, the guest uses the vmware driver. I have also installed the vmware tools from the workstation and not the repo.
On 2013-04-04 20:36, damion 666 wrote:
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> The host is irrelevant. I am running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate with VMware
> Workstation 9.0.2 with an ATI HD3xxx card. Like I said, it worked in
> 12.2.
No, the host is not irrelevant. How are the graphics handled on the host
relates to how well the graphics works in the guest.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I am using the latest 13.1 ATI catalyst drivers, they work fine in windows. I think this thread is going no where, I shall abandon it.:bad:
OK, I get this from dmesg
[drm] Detected device 3D availability.
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[drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.4.0 20120209 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0
On 2013-04-05 18:26, damion 666 wrote:
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> I am using the latest 13.1 ATI catalyst drivers, they work fine in
> windows. I think this thread is going no where, I shall abandon it.:bad:
I’m sorry, but I do not know what could be the problem. We are just
users like you volunteering time for helping others, but there is no
guarantee that we will always be able to do so.
You could try the vmware forums, too. I don’t know if it is a problem
with the virtualization or with the guest.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I totally understand this peer-to-peer support. I was just hopeing someone else had come across this and had a fix. I’m thinking that maybe vmware workstation 9.02 isn’t ready for kernel 3.7, or something along those lines.
What fixed this for me was to add myself to the ‘video’ group. openSUSE 12.3 does not do this automatically as I believe earlier versions did.
If you see those logs, everything is fine and just do this:
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edit your $(HOME)/.profile file and add the following line:
export KWIN_COMPOSE=O2
(note: Ocean Two, not Zero Two)
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Logout and re-login
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In System Settings / Desktop effects applet select OpenGL Compositing, with Raster (no Native) and no VSync.
Now OpenGL compositing should be working as expected.
You are a genius, that worked perfectly. Thanks. 
This also worked for me. I had a similar problem using Oracle VirtualBox with OpenSuse 12.3 guest and adding this KWIN_COMPOSE variable solved my problem. Thanks for the valuable information.
Hello, I had the same problem with Suse 13.1 with KDE 4.11.3 under VMWare Workstation 10.0.1. The solution given by CopperWing does work also in this case ! Thanks for that 