[SOLVED] how to fix borderless beryl on 915g

groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

When I start beryl, it decorates the window, alt-tab menu etc however all the windows lose borders.

I tried google and this forum but couldnt find anything.

I am using AIGLX on 915G graphics and got beryl from portage (0.1.99.2) as well as just now tried 9999 from xeffects overlay. Same result. In the middle of experiment also deleted my ~/.beryl and ~/.emerald directories.

Any ideas?

Here is output from beryl

roderick · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject:

Please post the xorg.conf sections pertaining to your video card. There are certain options you may require for AIGLX portion to work correctly here.

As well, what version of video driver, xorg-server and Mesa are you using?
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groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

I'm using

x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-1.7.4
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.3.0
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0
x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0
media-libs/mesa-6.5.2

Here is relevant section from my xorg.conf:

foxbat · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

I just fixed this last night...

Apparently this is an issue with the Emerald theme crashing, not necessarily Beryl. Make sure you have a valid default wm to fall back on. I ended up not using Emerald at all and just staying with Metacity. You still get all the nice Beryl effects, but you're borders will be GTK (if you use gnome).

You can set it up using beryl-manager. Other people have said that they set the Rendering option to "Copy" and that worked for them too.
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groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

When emerlad crashes it falls back to kwin as I have set it up but then I dotn see any effects. its plain kwin.

when it doesnt crash I see some effects but no borders.

I tried copy option but didnt help. i also tried indirect rendering, strict binding but to no avail.

roderick · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject:

I do not believe you have your xorg.conf 100% correct. As well, I have had issues with xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 and have had to use 1.7.2-r2 instead (running glxgears under 1.7.4 caused my display to lock solid).

Anyway, try reverting to 1.7.2-r2 and see if it works then. If not, then try the following changes in your xorg.conf:

If you have not done so, please add Option AIGLX "true" under Section ServerLayout.

Remove Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" from the Screen Section as this is a nVidia option, and not required/used by Intel (could cause issues).

Heres' the correct wiki to follow to ensure AIGLX is working http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX

Hope this helps. If, once you have followed the wiki, and my suggestions, things stil do not work, let me know, I have additional things to potentially try.
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groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

Ok, I followd your advice and reinstalled xorg-server etc.. but nothing helps.

One thing is that version 1.7.2.-42 is not available so I'm using 1.7.4

groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

for sake of completeness here is what it prints if I just run beryl

roderick · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

groovy12 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 127

thanks, that did the trick!