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The transparency thing comes from the official nvidia driver. It’s not cooperating with X. Now what I wanted was to have compiz, no-transparency and nvidia-settings at the same time. It is possible the following way:

on opensuse you must have the two packages installed:

nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-173.14.12

x11-video-nvidiaG01-173.14.12-0.3.x86_64.rpm

I’ve found theme here:

http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/opensuse/nvidia/download.nvidia.com/opensuse/

both packages are absolutely necessary, also their version must be synchronized. After the installation, you can run

SaX2 0=nvidia

and set up the correct resolution. The dual screens and other tricks are not treeted here.

then I’ve run nvidia-xconfig with:

nvidia-xconfig –no-allow-dfp-stereo –allow-glx-with-composite –composite –depth=24 -a –no-logo

or

nvidia-xconfig –add-argb-glx-visuals –allow-glx-with-composite –depth=24 -a –load-kernel-module –no-logo –multigpu=ON –no-sli –no-stereo –no-xinerama

to get composit among the options.

After you must set up in YaST -> Sysconfig -> … -> XServer -> xorg

it’s not XGL. But don’t worry if you set up right all the three things will function.

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