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jonathantan86

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Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 42

Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

I am using KDE 3.5.6 (currently with the KWin window manager, but I'm hoping to use Beryl instead). When I run startx, everything runs fine. I then open a Konsole window and run beryl-manager, and the Beryl window manager takes over. Moving windows (with the wobbly animation), switching workspaces (spinning cube) and maximising works fine, but when I minimise the Konsole window, I cannot get it back even though I clicked on the taskbar button. Hovering over the taskbar button does give a scaled-down picture of the window though.

Tooltips do not appear anymore also. Neither do menus (e.g. the K menu) and I cannot open another window, say, by clicking on a desktop icon or a Kicker icon.

Any help? Thanks.

tradiaz

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Registered: 2007-03-25

Posts: 22

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

I had quite similar problems last time...
Are you using xgl?
For me installing Xgl from Danimoth's repository worked.
I downloaded mesa-xgl-git and xgl manually from here:
http://jjdanimoth.altervista.org/arch/i … ?dir=i686/

Last edited by tradiaz (2007-03-25 09:05:08)

jonathantan86

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Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 42

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

No, I am using AIGLX with the i810 video driver (which matches my video card).

Hmm...I also disabled the dbus plugin because dbus does not automatically start per-session for me (I heard that KDE4 launches it automatically but I'm using KDE3 which doesn't). But that might or might not have anything to do with my problem

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

Are your network settings changing after you start X? Sometimes my network settings are wrong before I start X. I then go to fix them, but new programs don't show up. I think this is just a Beryl thing. Probably it has to do with the host name changing in my case.

jonathantan86

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Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 42

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

How do I know if my network settings are changed after I start X?

As for network...the only network configuration I know related to X is the /etc/hosts entry for the local hostname. My hostname is "eleven" and there is an "eleven 127.0.0.1" entry in /etc/hosts.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

try putting this in a script
#!/bin/bash
beryl&
emerald --replace&

and run it

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

I'm sure you might have tried this already but just incase..

Whenever beryl starts to act funny on me I delete the ~/.beryl directory and start fresh.

There's been a few times where something got screwy with my settings and that fixed it.

jonathantan86

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Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 42

Re: Beryl 0.2.0 + KDE 3.5.6: No new windows appear

The script didn't work...running it (I tried both as root and as myself) gave the same results as running beryl-manager.

I also tried adding "xhost +localhost" as describe here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31104 and that didn't change anything either.

Yeah, I have deleted ~/.beryl before.

Um...has anyone here used Beryl 0.2.0 successfully? If so, can you tell me whether you disabled the dbus plugin for Beryl? Perhaps that plugin is necessary.