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Rukie l33t
Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 692 Location: SE Wi, Home of cheese and cowtippers.......
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: Beryl + Xfce4 - Background Gone/Desktop Gone |
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I just finished installing my gentoo system, setup a nice slim WM, xfce4, an awsome WM, but... I decided to setup some sweet effects, so I setup beryl.
Beryl works fine, I get all these cool effects, but I can't right click on the desktop for the xfce menu and stuff. Any suggestions on how to get my desktop back? _________________ Gentoomania! Support the Open Source!
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AaronPPC Guru
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if I have the solution since you are using beryl instead of xfwm as your WM, but try deleting ~/.config and ~/.cache. It sounds like that old Xfce4 bug. _________________ --Aaron |
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Rukie l33t
Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 692 Location: SE Wi, Home of cheese and cowtippers.......
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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I tried that, no avail. It actually made things worse. Now when beryl loads up, the screens are black.... lol _________________ Gentoomania! Support the Open Source!
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tsunam Retired Dev
Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155490 <---might try what is said in the bug on how to start up beryl. It seems to work for at least a few users. Upstream is informed about it, but I can't seem to reproduce the problem on my xfce4 desktop. _________________ I'm not afraid of happy endings, just afraid my life wont work that way. |
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jamiethehutt n00b
Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Scotland!
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Try starting xfdesktop after Beryl has started. _________________ "Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside." - A Scanner Darkly By PK Dick |
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Rukie l33t
Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 692 Location: SE Wi, Home of cheese and cowtippers.......
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Starting xfdesktop after beryl does allow me to use the background (I haven't read the thread yet that was posted here)
However, when I start beryl these are the things it says, any worries I should have? Should I have XGL with beryl??? Should I use aquamarine instead of emerald and stuff. All I have right now is the nvidia graphics with beryl, so any suggestions on w hat I should use would be great
I'm on a 32 mb memory nvidia card on a dell inspiron 8200 right now (but beryl works great on it with minimal resources, can you believe it, on a 32 mb vid card?)
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** (beryl-manager:9706): 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.
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Initiating splash
beryl: water: GL_ARB_fragment_program is missing
Reloading all options.
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R!tman Veteran
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 1303 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:55 am Post subject: |
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jamiethehutt wrote: | Try starting xfdesktop after Beryl has started. |
Yes, that does indeed work. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to do that automatically. Any suggestions?
I either have the XFCE "Autostarted Applications" started, including beryl-manager, but then beryl-manager is set to use xfwm4, or beryl is started with beryl as WM and therefore I don't have the (other) XFCE "Autostarted Applications" running and no XFCE desktop (eg. no right-click menu on the desktop). |
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01mf02 Veteran
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 1070 Location: Innsbruck, Austria
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problem, but after updating to the most recent Xfce packages, it worked. |
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aych Guru
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:48 am Post subject: |
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didn't work for me. gotta start by myself evertime >< |
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