hi, my first post 
some niggles to help me with…
when i minimise a window it disappears completely.no icon on the toolbar that i can click to maximise again.
how do i get the lovely 3d stuff! i enable effects, but when i try them i find they’ve been disabled again. i especially want transparent window bars and wobbly windows (sad, i know…)
the desktop icons are a little on the small side. how do i increase the size?
many thanks in advance and merry xmas
We’ll need some info: What version of openSUSE? KDE or GNOME? Which graphics card? Are you running the nVidia or ATI native drivers?
oops…
11.2 and KDE. nvidia gforce 4 mx (old i know…).
Did you install the native driver?
First I’d restart it… see:
PC-BSD Forum • View topic - Restart KDE kicker (taskbar)
dcop kicker kicker restart
Delete the existing panel and add a new one
This will help
Picasa Web Albums - caf4926 - Login and Panel
Or just add a task manager to your existing one
i’ve had a look in /etc/x11/xorg.config
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU”
Driver “nv”
Identifier “Device[0]”
VendorName “NVidia”
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “off”
EndSection
i’m thinking just changing ‘off’ to ‘on’ will not work. it says something about xcomposite and xdamage not available.
Try this:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection
This works for my card, which is an ATI, not nVidia, but it may work.
Hi ambarcthom,
when i minimise a window it disappears completely.no icon on the toolbar that i can click to maximise again
You may not have the task manager in your panel. You can add it if your widgets is unlock by pointing the moouse to the panel and right mouse click add widgets.
how do i get the lovely 3d stuff! i enable effects, but when i try them i find they’ve been disabled again. i especially want transparent window bars and wobbly windows (sad, i know…)
the desktop icons are a little on the small side. how do i increase the size?
Try installing the nvidia driver thru the repo or the hardway using the driver from nvidia site. Do a forum search for nvidia you will find the howto.
Hope this help a bit.
You should have on of these depending which kernel you have, desktop, default, pae?
"nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.11_2.6.31.5_0.1-24.1.i586.rpm"
"nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop-96.43.11_2.6.31.5_0.1-24.1.i586.rpm"
"nvidia-gfx-kmp-pae-96.43.11_2.6.31.5_0.1-24.1.i586.rpm"
Along with
x11-video-nvidia-96.43.11-25.1.i586.rpm"
This assume you are 32 bit, otherwise you would need the _64
The driver is available in the repo or manually download from
NVIDIA DRIVERS 96.43.14