Hi,
As per my previous post, I have enabled drak 3d acceleration on my machine, logged out, hit control/alt/delete simultaneously and logged in again on my kde desktop.
If Drak3d is working, should it initially look any different? It looks just like my 2d KDE desktop to me. Is there something I have to do to configure it? I have 4 different desktops set up and I imagined them immediately laid out in a rotating ciube with the 3d effects, water effects etc working immediately.
Should this be the case? Maybe my 3d desktop isnt working? Am i doing something wrong?

tim

3d Accleration is only the underlying support

with 3d enabled you can play highly detailed games like quake doom 3 tux racer etc

to have a floating desktop that utilises 3d acceleration you must install beryl or Xgl.


if it working ALT+CTRL+up down left or right should shift around the cube.

If you ended your session with [clt-alt-delete] you may have aborted the setup program and not saved the changes.

Hi,
thanks for the quick replies!
The 3d acceleration screen told me to hit control, alt, delete before logging in again for some reason, so I'm guessing the settings were saved, but you could well be right :-)

As for ctrl -alt arrow key, should this actually show a rotating cube, or just each desktop if 3d is working? When I do this, only a 2d desktop rotation takes place.
The reason I was asking about the rotating cube, water effects and 3d menus etc., is that they seem to be mentioned on the initial drak3d configuration screen. Do I still need beryl or similar to actually use the effects?

thanks again,
tim

I was confused the same
try arrow down rather than arrow left/right.
It all depends on compiz options

move mouse cursor top right, if all windows minimise then you have a 3d desktop for sure enabled

otherwise run
drak3d
compiz setup (cannot remember name)

I get the wobble effect, and some others, but I don't think I have ever seen the waterfall effect. I don't even know what it is supposed to do. I just discovered the fold effect: ctrl-alt-<down arrow>. If you have gnome installed as well, running /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-xgl-settings may tell you whether 3d is enabled. There is a status indicator which will tell you whether 3D accelleration is being used, and if Desktop effects are enabled.

If you mean the rain, same here, never managed to make it work. There is a serie of shortcuts to enable it then start it. I have not managed to make it work, though