KlavKalashj wrote:nqn1976 wrote:Workaround: add "export KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1" to your .bashrc
Does not seem to work for me
It doesn't work for me too , but KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1 kwin --repleace does the trick.
That works for me too, but only for the panel. Applets in the panel (nm plasma applet for example) stays un-blurred.
Edit: Wouldn't this mean that .bashrc is not being read properly, or something like that? What method are you using to start X?
Edit2: Hm. Using the workaround provided by nqn1976 but adding it to .xinitrc works perfectly for me, using some kind of automated startx method. Desktop is a little more sluggish now, but much more beautiful.
Edit3: (lol) disabling vsync made it fast again. Win!
]]>nqn1976 wrote:Workaround: add "export KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1" to your .bashrc
Does not seem to work for me
It doesn't work for me too , but KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1 kwin --replace does the trick.
]]>Workaround: add "export KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1" to your .bashrc
Does not seem to work for me
]]>Here are parts of my xseession-errors
with mesa 7.10.1
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G41
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.10.1)
Driver: Intel
GPU class: i965
OpenGL version: 1.4
Mesa version: 7.10.1
X server version: 1.9.4
Linux kernel version: 2.6.37
Direct rendering: no
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: no
Texture NPOT support: yes
and with mesa 7.10.0.git20110215 (similar output with current mesa-git packages)
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G41 GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.1-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Driver: Intel
GPU class: i965
OpenGL version: 2.1
GLSL version: 1.20
Mesa version: 7.10.1
X server version: 1.9.4
Linux kernel version: 2.6.37
Direct rendering: yes
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Blur was working, the AUR oxygen-transparent-svn theme was stable and working perfectly, the panel was blurred, and so were the taksbar thumbnails and start menu. I went through a couple of upgrades with no problems concerning my intel i5-430m.
Then one day I ruined my computer installing "Go-preload" (which had nothing to do with my perfectly running KDE 4.6) so I did a fresh install.
My problem started after the fresh install of Arch.
I used the same xf86-video-intel, and oxygen-transparent-svn packages and even SAW the blur effect work "for like 2 minutes" before it completely broke. (what had happened was that I had just clicked the theme settings from oxygen to oxygen-transparent and all of my open windows blurred in the way that it should blur. Then I went to the workspace appearance section to configure the oxygen-transparent settings for the window decorations, pressed "OK" and saw the blur effect break on every single window that was open)
Anything I tried to do after that would never bring the blur effect back. (I followed any tip from google, kde forums, and arch forums). And since a ftp Arch install only takes around 30 minutes, I figured that the blur would work again if I started from scratch, so I reinstalled again.
No luck.
The blur effect was broken from the very beginning because my panel had no blur, and neither did the taskbar thumbnails or the start menu.
Now I've spent the last couple of weeks without the blur efect, and I've even done a few more fresh installs to see if it would automagically fix the problem but it didn't, and I've tried various suggestions like disabling every other desktop effect except the blur effect and nothing has helped.
I have noticed one possible thing that may be doing this. On my panel the 'notifications widget' will sometimes show this dark gray square box (like the compositing is broke), but I still can't figure out how to fix this, which is lame because the KDE 4.6 with "transparent everything" was the best looking desktop that I've ever used.
]]>OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.10.1)
Driver: Intel
GPU class: i965
OpenGL version: 1.4
Mesa version: 7.10.1
X server version: 1.9.4
Linux kernel version: 2.6.37
Direct rendering: no
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: no
Texture NPOT support: yes
...
Effect "kwin4_effect_blur" is not supported
...
glxinfo says Direct rendering is enabled.
When I first installed KDE4.6 it was working. I don't remember since which upgrade it's broken.