beryl issue after 1.3 upgrade

stamperb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 100

I just did an upgrade to xorg-xserver-1.3 from xorg-xserver-1.2 and now beryl is doing some weird stuff with my windows. So when i open a terminal session for instance, it opens but the prompt never comes up and i can't type in it. If i open firefox It opens but i can't type in the menu bar. It appears as tho all keyboard/mouse input is gone. However if i click the x to close the progrma it will close but even trying to click on file to get the menu i can't do. Hopefully I've explained this well enough. Anyone have any ideas? its a Dell Lattitude D620 with the Intel 945 card. I have the 915resolution working and am at 1400x900. Any ideas?

estel · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject:

I have had this problem too several times, and am suffering from it at the moment since upgrading to 1.4 from 1.3.
The problem is that the windows aren't refreshing: I believe if you manually refresh them say, by resizing the windows, you'll see all of the text that you've typed into them.

I think that the fix is to recompile some packages onto the new xorg, but I don't know which packages yet, sorry

. I'm going to start tonight with recompiling all of the dependencies of compiz and work my way up

Edit: Oh, I get the feeling that it's these new lines in Xorg.0.log that cause the problems:

stamperb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 100

I see those too so i'm guessing that might be it. Any luck yet? I've done some recompiling myself with not luck yet.

ikshaar · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

Just to say, since beryl and compiz have merged back, beryl was discontinued afaik. I just switched to compiz-0.5.2 in portage. A bit different, but compiz seems to have made progress on the stability.

In case you want to give it a try.

(compiz-extras still failed to compiled but it's optional)
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stamperb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 100

Odd i've tried compiz too and i'm getting the same issue. I'll do some other research to see if there is anything else i need to setup for compiz but its the eaxact same error.[/url]