Comments on: XGL and Beryl on Kubuntu Edgy

By: xeniter

xeniter — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:09:08 +0000

xgl sources wasnt available as i tested it

here are new sources:

deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main
wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

xgl rulez, vista wow effect is nothing againt it

By: Desenfrenada’s » New plaything

Desenfrenada’s » New plaything — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:26:21 +0000

[...] to disable the Windows key (which I use for most of my short cuts) and the alt gr key. Thanks to Kevin Colyar and josteinaj for pointing out that there are XkbOptions and the .Xmodmap file to improve that dire [...]

By: Haas

Haas — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:53:50 +0000

Got it working thanks
I had assumed that Win key setting was to enable it as a superkey for Beryl.

By: Kevin Colyar

Kevin Colyar — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:41:39 +0000

Thanks Haas. I updated the instructions with your changes. My hot keys are working fine with AmaroK. Did you see my bug fix at the end of my post regarding the Super Key (Windows Key)?

*Super key = Windows key

BUG: My super key wasn’t working
FIX: Add
Option “XkbOptions” “altwin:super_win”
to the keyboard input section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Kevin

By: Haas

Haas — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:33:54 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the brilliant how to post. It saved me a lot of trouble and worked like a charm. 2 things I wanted to say:

1. In your how to you have not explained what to do with ATI cards. Beryl will work with ATI cards by replacing
Xgl -fullscreen :1 -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer & sleep 2 && DISPLAY=:1 with
Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv -accel glx:pbuffer & in /usr/bin/startxgl.sh

2. Beryl looks simply awe inspiring but for some reason when it runs it does not allow access to my AmaroK hot keys(win key combos) once its running. It works fine with default KDE sessions. If you can tell us how to get that working it will be really good help thanks

By: Kevin Colyar

Kevin Colyar — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:58:19 +0000

In KDE you can setup auto start programs by creating links in your ~/.kde/Autostart directory. For example:

$ ln -s /usr/bin/beryl-manager ~/.kde/Autostart/beryl-manager

I would recommend creating a “beryl startup script” like the following to kill any existing beryl managers (I was getting multiple instancing when logging in and out), start beryl, and any other beryl related functions.

#!/usr/bin/bash
# Kill any existing beryl managers
skill beryl-manager
…
# Start the beryl manager
beryl-manager
…

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll update the instructions. Hope that helps.

Kevin

By: ingo

ingo — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:33:20 +0000

Hi,

at last a proper howto for kubuntu edgy! And quite a novel approach, too. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me (GeForce 5200). I still have no window edges and my 3D capability was gone with X becoming quite sluggish…

I then looked at the link you provided and noticed that you left out this

9. Set “beryl-manager” and “beryl-xgl” to start automatically
a. System > Preferences > Sessions > Startup Programs Then add these three entries:
(1) xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us
(2) beryl-manager
(3) beryl-xgl

Hm, how to do that in KDE???

Any advice is most welcome!

Cheers

Ingo