Howto: Beryl (for Intel embedded graphics cards)

[Uncle Spellbinder]

*** UPDATED with most current info, 29-October-2006 ***

As Beryl is now incredibly easy to install, the "official" repos should be followed. Please see below. Enjoy Beryl!

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Edgy, see the official "Howto": How-to install Beryl with AIGLX on Edgy Eft

Dapper, See the official "Howto": How-to install Beryl with AIGLX on Dapper

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[foxy123]

I take it this howto is for Edgy only?

[Hotaru]

It dind't work for me .
I have first completly removed all compiz-related packages with Synaptic and then followed your how-to. Everything seems to be installed, I have Emerald and Beryl apllications in System>Preferences, but nothing happens when I try to run them.

[foxy123]

Just to say that it works for Dapper as well. You just need a different repository. I am not sure which but this is what I have in my sources.list. Please remove compiz manually as beryl does not remove everything.

##AIGLX-Compiz
deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main aiglx
deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz dapper main aiglx
deb http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx
deb http://media.blutkind.org/xgl/ dapper main aiglx

deb-src http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main aiglx
deb-src http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz dapper main aiglx
deb-src http://ubuntu.compiz.net/ dapper main aiglx
deb-src http://media.blutkind.org/xgl/ dapper main aiglx

[iam_foo]

hi..i get this error msg when starting beryl or the manager..

XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
beryl: No stencil buffer. Clipping of transformed windows is not going to be correct when screen is transformed.
beryl: Couldn't load plugin 'manager'


i have just installed edgy. fresh. i updated with repositories.
i installed beryl as described above.


there is absolutely no compiz present.
[ find / -name 'compiz' ]

tanks

**dell inspiron 6000 w intel i810. //edgy/gnome.

any help is greatly appreciated.

[Sirin]

*deleted*

[Toufik]

there is absolutely no compiz present.
[ find / -name 'compiz' ]

That's BERYL and not compiz!!

Bye the way, this how-to is for edgy. It is so easy because AIGLX is already in edgy. For Dapper, the repos is

deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ dapper main aiglx

But remember that you need to install first AIGLX. Use this How-to:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index....u/Dapper/AiGLX


Another point is to completely remove compiz before:

sudo aptitude purge compiz compiz-core compiz-plugin compiz-manager csm cgwd cgwd-themes

Finally, it works also with Kubuntu, follow the same instructions except to start automatically beryl-manager at each startup, make a link:

ln -s /usr/bin/beryl-manager ~/.kde/Autostart/beryl-manager

Uncle Spellbinder -> Maybe it's worth to add these in your first post

[GPH]

It works well on my computer, but as soon as I close a window, Beryl crashes and goes back to metacity.

Any ideas on this ?

**SOLVED**
I had to enable Multiverse and Universe and do an update.

[Fire]

Okay I can't figure this out. I have beryl running on my system. When I start running it all my windows lose there title bar. I can't move any of the windows. And when I select a theme from emerald nothing happends.

Any help would be great from someone that has this running.. thanks

[Fire]

OKay I have found something but unsure what to do with it.

Warning**: Couldn't find a Selection Owner, perhaps no WM running?
Otherwise, manually kill your wm, and report the bug to the developers, it doesn't follow the standards.
Falling back to looking for a defined WM in xlsclients.
The program 'emerald' recieved and X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 657 error_code 8 request_code 153 minor_code 8)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will recieve the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace
from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Absent, assuming AIGLX
beryl: GLX-EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
beryl: Failed to manage screen: 0
beryl: No manageable screens found on display : 0.0

Any help would be great.. thank you