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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

startxgl = no window manager? [solved]

I'm running XFCE4 on X at the moment, but I've been experimenting with beryl a bit (and got it to work finally!), but I wanna try XGL too.  I'm on an nVidia card, and I heard that the graphics are much smoother in XGL, so I wanna try it.  However, when I run startxgl from the command line, I get a grey screen with an X for a cursor ... no window manager?  exec xfce4-session is in my .xinitrc, what's wrong?

Last edited by synthead (2007-05-24 09:59:28)

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: startxgl = no window manager? [solved]

Ah, figured it out.  You gotta put startxgl [display] [window manager] [card type].  For example, startxgl 0 xfce nvidia.  If you less startxgl, you'll see the commented script that explains this pretty well actually.

Best of all, I got it to work!

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: startxgl = no window manager? [solved]

And... is it better?

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