POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Cannot install for KDE : Re: Cannot install for KDE Server Time
2 May 2024 02:13:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cannot install for KDE  
From: Ger
Date: 19 Jan 2012 03:35:35
Message: <4f17d5d7@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> On 19/01/12 06:57, Ger wrote:
>> You also mentioned a transparent render window when povray is running.
>> That is a direct effect of the Povray display code being ancient compared
>> to the KDE display code. A simple workaround is to start a render with
>> the -D option, no display, and then open the image being rendered with
>> gwenview. Gwenview is a standard in KDE and can handle images that are
>> incomplete.
> 
>    IIRC, the solution for that was to use the "-visual DirectColor"
>    switch.
> 
Could be. I haven't heard of it and obviously never used it.

-- 
Ger


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