Ok, I thought I would have a stab at getting this up and running. I downloaded the xgl-abs-overlay from Miko's PKGBuilds and started building/installing the packages in the order as outlined in the wiki. However, when it comes to building the mesa-xgl-cvs package, I receive this error:

Fair enough. I then installed the prebuilt binaries from the shadowhand repository. So far, so good.

However, when I drop outta x and run 'startxgl 0 kde nvidia' I just get a blue screen - which I can rotate - but no *desktop*. Whilst running the above whilst in X, I have my desktop and can use the effects, but the desktop is completely non-functional, e.g windows have no title bars; cant browse the net and text in xmms is non-readable. Basically, its non-useable.

As is evident, I am at a loss here so I thought I would ask the knowledgable folk here at LQ. Have I missed something glaringly obvious? All advice aimed at a 5-year old gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

Edit - Typos.

I had another stab at this today and have made some more progress ...

I added an option for kde in the startup script in /usr/bin/startxgl. I edited /etc/pacman.conf and told it to ignore fixesproto after reading the Arch forum, thereby allowing me to update xgl-cvs. It now looks as though it should look, eg windows start bouncing around when its bootin etc. Lol.

However, I still dont have any borders on the windows which means I cant close/move stuff. Text is still garbled in xmms. I havent played that much so probably more problems I havent noticed. I *think* I have all the plugins enabled but will keep trying tomorrow. It's late and bed is calling!

Thought i'd write an update...

Finally have this up and running after another try yesterday.

The reason it was so sluggish was due to not having rendering enabled via xorg; also changed default depth to 24 (as opposed to 16).

This time, rather than using the package builds, I went to shadowhand's site and downloaded the tar.gz files and installed them individually using pacman -A <name>. If there were any dependency issues then I installed them via pacman and continued as normal. Im not sure if that was the *magic* fix, but I now have window borders and everything functions as it should do.

I must say it's all rather responsive considering the effects that there are. In all honesty I will most probably get bored of it after a week but at least its up and running and there If I want it.

I hope this helps anyone else who is struggling to get this up and running.