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quaaack

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 17

Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

I've downloaded and installed beryl through pacman, and I can see the beryl tray icon when I start beryl-manager, however when I select beryl as a window manager, it removes the window frames for a second, goes back to xfwm, and spits out this -

[mike@europa ~]$ beryl-manager
[mike@europa ~]$ 
** (beryl-manager:7365): 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.
**************************************************************
* Beryl system compatiblity check                            *
**************************************************************

Detected xserver                                : NVIDIA

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension               : failed

No composite extension
134706409 screens detected.
Currently we cannot guarantee that Beryl will work correctly with multiple X screens.
Using the --no-context-share command line option can help.
Please report any success to the beryl developer mailing list. The list can be found at lists.beryl-project.org

** (xfwm4:7453): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite extension.

** (xfwm4:7453): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.

** (beryl-manager:7365): 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.

** (xfwm4:7466): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite extension.

** (xfwm4:7466): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.

By the way, I've got an old nVidia card which I used nvidia-96xx as its driver.

Also, while I'm at it (instead of making a new thread), I'm looking for some way to turn off the monitor after a certain amount of inactivity, and then eventually suspend (s3) after a longer time.  I've got a desktop so I keep my computer on all the time, but I haven't found any way to turn off my monitor after being idle for 20 minutes.

Thanks

Last edited by quaaack (2007-07-15 18:54:28)

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

Why not using compiz-fusion instead of Beryl? Beryl is obsolete, as it has re-merged with compiz (creating compiz-fusion).

Repository to be found here.

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-07-15 18:41:36)

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quaaack

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 17

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

I still get "compiz (core) - Fatal: No composite extension"

quaaack

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 17

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

Nevermind.. I just added

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to the end of my xorg.conf

But now I have no window borders.  What's worse is my terminal windows are completely white.

Last edited by quaaack (2007-07-15 19:10:10)

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

You might change the window manager to compiz after starting the whole thing - metacity obviously won't work or has to be re-enabled.

Additionally, what about this line in the Device-Section of your xorg.conf

Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

Is it there?

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quaaack

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 17

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

No it's not there should it?  I already changed the wm to compiz, which made my window frames disappear.  When I change it back to Xfwm it's all back to normal.

quaaack

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 17

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

I did something to xorg.conf and it fixed itself.  I think it was either the "XXANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true".. or "TripleBuffer" "True"

Anyways it works now so thanks

Last edited by quaaack (2007-07-15 19:46:55)

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Beryl in Xfce ..+power management

Regarding the old Beryl-howtos it was to be added in order to use Beryl with nvidia-AIGLX. You might try out adding it and thereafter restarting X, but I'm far from being an expert (in fact I never got Beryl or CompizFusion to run at proper speed).

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
kernel26
KDEmod current repository