Beryl/emerald

civint · Post by **civint** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:55 pm

When I load up beryl as window manager, with emerald as the window decorator, the window borders dissappear...I tried reloading the wm and the wd, but nothing works...

I tried to apply a theme that was compatible with human, however, nothing appears to work. Its not drastic, but it does detract from the user experience.

Also, how do you set beryl as the default window manager?

civint · Post by **civint** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:59 am

NAw, I have nvidia....

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:21 am

I know I have seen the solution to such a problem in the forum, but I do not have the time to look for it (at least not today)
Look in the how to section for a post on Beryl and in the wiki - if changing the theme doesn't help there are some "funny" lines to add in xorg.conf but I don't remember them

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:32 pm

civint,

From a fresh install I added the "Restricted Drivers". That gave me Beryl, and the 3-D Desktop with a few key strokes -- "CTRL + alt + left mouse key. Then move the cursor.

I'm now looking for the scripts to auto-launch Beryl on Boot.

Oh, I am now using an NVidia Card on my Notebook.

You should have seen what this was like with an ATI card... Compiling, trashing, starting all over again.

This is pretty simple with the help of the latest Mint Distro.

Adler
Phoenix, Arizona

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:51 am

By chance is terminal also just a white blank space? If so, right click on the Beryl diamond and select Metacity as the window manager.

Go to terminal and execute:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals

Close any open apps, then restart your X session (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).

Then change the window manager back to Beryl.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:53 pm

newW2 that was exactly what I was thinking about. There may be more lines to add if this does not help. It can be found in the longest post about Beryl, which happens to be the sticky in the Howto section

Adler · Post by **Adler** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:58 pm

Guys,

I come back to a fresh install of Caasandra.

I've been playing with Linux, and all those "Eye Candy" options for a while. There is no need to go to terminal.

It all works for me off of Cassandra and my NVidia Driver. In the past, I did it with Bianca, and ATI Drivers.

BTW, I love the Mint. Great job guys.

Adler
Phoenix, Arizona

sonics · Post by **sonics** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:26 am

newW2 wrote:By chance is terminal also just a white blank space? If so, right click on the Beryl diamond and select Metacity as the window manager.

Go to terminal and execute:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals

Close any open apps, then restart your X session (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).

Then change the window manager back to Beryl.

I had the same problem, tried your solution and it worked!

Thanks!

To learn something more about linux; What did this command exactly change in nvidia-xconfig?

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:44 am

What did this command exactly change in nvidia-xconfig?

It should have been added to your xorg.conf in the section screen