Beryl works, but windows have no borders and no close/minimize buttons

[mikledet]

I installed beryl on Ubuntu 7.04, installation seems to work, since beryl-manager is up and running, and I get the cube effect and some other stuff. The problem is that the windows are drawn without its edges like in the top right hand corner there's no 'X' or ' _ ' buttons to close/minimize the window. Also I can't move the windows around. Terminal window comes all messed up and I can't see what's written there. Help...

[Hund]

Do you have Nvidia?
If you do, try this:

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

and then

Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart X.

[nwgray]

Originally Posted by Hund Do you have Nvidia? If you do, try this: sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals and then Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart X.

Hund
I've had the same problem since going to 7.04. I just tried your fix above - no change. Any window I open up is immediately drawn to the upper left side and very top. No handles, controls, or anything. There's no title bar to grab either.

[douseej85]

Are these windows the normal Ubuntu ones. or has the Emerald theme been changed as well.?

Do you get any benefit from changing to a different theme in Emerald?

Only asking because I install Ubuntu 7.04 last night and had a challenge getting my Nvidia card to work properly...One driver didn't give me max res, the other gave the right res but damaged my OpenGL, and the last (which is the most recent) worked fine.

In the end I used nvidia-glx-new.....

Have you got any more info, like your setup/xorg.conf/glxinfo

[mikledet]

Originally Posted by Hund Do you have Nvidia? If you do, try this: sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals and then Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart X.

I do have nVidia and I used this: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-ins...isty-fawn.html
to install beryl.
Changing themes doesn't do anything as well. For me the windows (firefox for example) starts up maximized, and I can only minimize it via hot-keys or the taskbar. Terminal opens in the bottom left, can't be moved, resized or minimized, and it views as a blank white window. It's not stuck though, because when I shut beryl down I can see everything I typed there.

[monstermunch]

Don't ask me why, but if you're using KDE, do a "killall kdesktop" before starting beryl and/or try running beryl with the failsafe windows manager. Make sure your card is set to 24bit colour too. Worked for me.

[Balistic]

I have the same problem, when I type "beryl-manager" in the terminal I get an error message saying:

"beryl: No GLXFBconfig for depth 32" and
"beryl: Couldn't bind redirected window 0x2800.. to texture"

Is this related to the problem? and if so how do I solve it?

[Cresho]

I just read a couple of your posts. you have a 7900go nvidia but you where asking about temp (not related to this topic)

1. anyway, im gona post how I installed my drivers.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common

2. then this part is important to get the nvidia working. Use nvidia instead of generic.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

3. nvidia-settings in terminal to get the nvidia settings. you can also vrete one in the menu with by adding this cammand.

4. enabling aa at startup.

startup sequence to run "nvidia-settings -l"(copy and paste this command) before beryl - this will turn on the settings and can be setup in System->Preferences->Sessions

Now for Beryl. This is the way I managed to get it working and fixing the border issue which was giving me problems.

1. I used add and remove program to install both beryl applications.

2. this part is for the vanishing borders.
sudo gedit(do this after you have your xorg configured.) if you reconfigure, this part vanishes.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf in the “Device” section:

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"

3. to auto load, put in "beryl-manager" in the prefferences-> sessions.

4.
hmm....There are tons and tons of other stuff to get you startd. ahh here is one. under synaptic, install emerald and emerald themes. these are the beryl border themes.

5. make sure you exit the desktop or reboot for this to take effect.

[alex30002]

Originally Posted by Hund Do you have Nvidia? If you do, try this: sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals and then Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart X.

this worked for me. thanks
i`m running 7.04 64bit on core 2 duo e6300

[orb9220]

Also try and disable the benchmark plugin in extra's.
This has caused beryl to crash lately If I enabled it then beryl crashes.

Make sure you have Launch fall back manger if beryl crashes checked in beryl right click selections.