beryl black window bug -- workaround

April 11th, 2007

It seems that someone finally found a working workaround for the annoying bery black window bug with proprietary nvidia drivers. Transforming the description there into command line args this results in 

  beryl --replace --use-tfp --force-aiglx --xgl-binding settings &
and that’s what I’m currently using. tvtime still runs smoothly (in contrast to the other workaround which was much smaller for me), I currently have a lot of windows open (thunderbird, firefox, more than 40 terminals (xfce-Terminal), tvbrowser, tvtime, scite…) and until now I did not get hit by the black window bug. Performance is a bit slow when moving the terminals around but I guess that’s related to the transparency the terminals use—without that workaround I would have never gotten 40 terminals spawned simultanously :)
Posted by hoffie Tagged as beryl

TV-Browser 2.5: Leeres Fenster mit beryl

January 10th, 2007

Dass mit Compositing-Managern wie beryl bei Java-GUIs seltsame Probleme auftreten können, wusste ich bereits… dass es mich mit TV-Browser 2.5 dann auch erwischt, find ich allerdings nicht so toll. Fragt mich nicht, welche Auswirkungen das hat, aber es hilft: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit—dann TV-Browser ganz normal starten und fertig

Das ganze hab ich aus dem Bugreport zu diesem Problem geklaubt.

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