User:Mlasars/SDB:Enable the 3D desktop (XGL/compiz)

From openSUSE

Version: 10.2

Situation

You want to enable the 3D destop effects on your system.

Procedure

Before you start, make sure you have 3D acceleration enabled. There are different ways to do it, please look at these articles for more information Intel 3D, Nvidia, ATI.

All needed programs for the 3D desktop are in the default installation, if you made a custom one please use YaST2 to install the package compiz.

To enable the 3D desktop you have to open a terminal (like konsole in KDE or gterm in GNOME) and login as user root:

su -
<enter the root password>
gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
SuSEconfig

You now have to restart the desktop system with CTRL ALT BACKSPACE (backspace is the key above the return/enter key with the arrow to the left), or reboot the system.

After login again you should be able to use the 3D desktop system, for more information how to use it, please look at Compiz. More information on how to configure compiz: Using Xgl on SUSE Linux.

disable the 3D desktop

To disable the 3D desktop you have to open a terminal and login as user root again:

su -
<enter the root password>
gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl
SuSEconfig

and restart the desktop again.

versions of SUSE Linux/openSUSE before 10.2

Please look at Using Xgl on older versions of SUSE Linux.

Links

• Xgl
• Using Xgl on SUSE Linux