Beryl+XGL+KDE problems with window decorations [workaround]

drseergio · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 236

I have successfully installed combination of latest versions of this software but beryl (or emerald) has issue with drawing window decorations. Sometimes they work but on every second reboot there are problems - looks like emerald is trying to draw but something makes it fail, it looks like flashing fast when I move the cursor. All versions are latest...

drseergio · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 236

I guess it happens after kdm login, if I try to launch "startxgl" from console then it works. Also it works if I close current session and retry loging in with kdm. What may be wrong with my configs?

SeeLook · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

I've got the same problem. It hapened with beryl/emerald from xgl-coffee svn (0.1.0) and now with portage version of bery/emerald 0.1.1.
I should restart xserver (ctrl+alt+backspace) and emerald menager works corectly, but after first X running emerald hangup.

drseergio · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 236

Thanks for the fast reply. The best solution is to... wait. Wait for the newer version of beryl and wait for AIGLX to come (to be supported by ati-drivers)

. Other than that I am quite impressed by this stuff

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FatMom · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 62

Its not an ATI driver related problem, I have the same problem with nvidia driver, with both aiglx and nvidia display method, and kde.

Ark del KAOS · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject:

FatMom · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 62

tried gnome, no problem at all, so its KDE related

Ark del KAOS · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

¿Maybe some kde native decoration options?

opqdan · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:55 am Post subject:

I'm having the same problem. After my x session starts (via kdm), the window decorations flash on and off. I can then right click on the Beryl manager and choose kwin as my windows manager, and the old school KDE decorations will show up (although it runs with reduced performance). I found out yesterday, that I can also run "killall beryl-manager" or some such (I can't quite remember now), and suddenly beryl works fine.

Right now, everything seems to be in order, but I know that if I reboot, it will all happen again.

I will try switching out KDM for GDM and see what that does to the issue, if anything. Otherwise, I suppose I just have to play the waiting game (which is odd, because I used to use compiz-quinnstorm with no issues at all).

mars-red · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

I just got Xgl running this morning, and I had this problem at first too. I went into the emerald theme manager and applied a different theme (blue-silk), and the problem went away - haven't seen it since. I'm using the beta nvidia drivers and beryl/emerald from portage.
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opqdan · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

Well, I tried GDM, but no luck. The problem still occurs, although, I found out that I can fix it by simply righ clicking on beryl-manaager in the system tray and closing it. The window decorations stop flashing imediatly. Restarting berly-manager from the taskbar has no effect on the decorations. This is also occuring with multipl themes, so that is not the issue.

Right now, the only thing I can think of is just to kill beryl-manager on every startup.

EDIT: that seems to actually be the recommended course of action right now. Killing bery-manager or more specifically emerald.

http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/566

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6749

I think it's a bug in beryl-manager. If you use KDEWM=/usr/bin/beryl-start (instead of .../beryl-manager) the problem disappears.
Unfortunately, then also the nice kicker icon in disappears (which apparently is part of beryl-manager), but at least beryl is then usable, and you can configure it manually.

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

I'm going to update the wiki today. I'm going to have the KDEWM be set to beryl, and then beryl-manager be a KDE autostart script.

drseergio · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 236

I found another solution, quite similar to mentioned one:

Set KDEWM=beryl in /etc/env.d/99kde-env
env-update && source /etc/profile

Afterwards:

nano -w /usr/local/bin/startberyl