Bug 238494

Summary: Desktop Effects Configuration claims that "compositing is not supported" while at the same time it works perfectly fine
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Ralf Jung <post>
Component: generalAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ralf Jung 2010-05-22 14:27:22 UTC 
Version:           1.0 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-22-generic

My laptop's graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 3200 and I am using the binary frglx driver. The KWin desktop effects work fine, however, when I start the desktop effects configuration module, it says that "Compositing unfortunately is not supported on my system". Which is obviously wrong.
I was only able to enable the effects because the system originally used the open-source drivers, then I set everything up (including a shortcut to temporarily halt compositing), and then I switched drivers. I can't see the slightest issue, nothing - just the settings module does not work, which is obviously rather inconvenient.

This is with KDE 4.4.2, Kubuntu 10.04.
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2010-05-22 15:35:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226791 ***
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2012-04-13 19:22:39 UTC 
Bulk change: move all KWin kcm bugs to product kwin