Beryl / nvidia / kde: Window decorations flicker

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tkhobbes · Post by **tkhobbes** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:23 am

Hi there

I have successfully installed beryl on nvidia (with kde).
Now, when I start up, the window decorations (I guess that his is emerald) flicker - I basically can't see the titlebar, there is just some flickering there where the title bar should be...
It's only after I run the emerald manager and select some theme (no matter which), the flickering stops...

What could that be?

albright · Post by **albright** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:29 pm

I get the same problem on intel video (i810 driver). Strangely,
if I start beryl with beryl-start the decorations don't flicker,
but if I start beryl with beryl-manager, they do

the
the beryl-start command is a little quicker too since it doesn't
open the setting program ...

Once I pick a new emerald theme the flickering stops - just killing
and restarting emerald fixes this so I expect it's some kind of
timing issue about when emerald is starting as beryl comes up

this is still pre-beta software after all

tkhobbes · Post by **tkhobbes** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:55 pm

you're right - it's still all very beta, so I can live with this.

I do start beryl together with KDE - KDEWM is set to beryl-manager...

Matrix7 · Post by **Matrix7** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:00 pm

I've had this as well. If you open a terminal and run pstree -p, you may find several instances of beryl (or beryl-manager) running. Don't know why, but if you kill one of these the flickering stops. I commented out the wm=beryl-manager option in /etc/env.d/99kde-env and this seems to stop this behaviour. Now if I find kde starting without beryl, I simply restart beryl-manager using the panel applet.

baigsabeeh · Post by **baigsabeeh** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:10 pm

tkhobbes wrote:Hi there

I have successfully installed beryl on nvidia (with kde).
Now, when I start up, the window decorations (I guess that his is emerald) flicker - I basically can't see the titlebar, there is just some flickering there where the title bar should be...
It's only after I run the emerald manager and select some theme (no matter which), the flickering stops...

What could that be?

It's a bug. It happens to me too on my new install and it happened to me on my old install. Remember, Beryl is only 0.1.1. That's like beginner alpha, so expectations are pretty high.

For me, sometimes restarting the box fixes it or restarting the windeco and then wm fixes it. Otherwise, you can always switch back to KWin or Metacity if you don't want to reboot.

The other alternative is to use aquamarine which is new windeco for Beryl that allows it to natively use KWin decos. There is also heliorod which uses Metacity windecos natively with Beryl.

Check that out. I'm looking into Heliorod. I might have spelled the names wrong, so check the Wiki.

calr0x · Post by **calr0x** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:23 pm

If this is the same thing I've seen:

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killall beryl-manager && beryl-manager

Should fix it...

Catch-22 · Post by **Catch-22** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:19 pm

This has been fixed (hopefully) in svn
http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/566

from reading the svn logs I think that means it'll be fixed in 0.1.2 which is pending inclusion into portage:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154494

Catch-22 · Post by **Catch-22** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:00 pm

0.1.2 is in portage now

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