Enabling xgl on SuSE 10.2

[SnagaDuath]

Hi...

I'm trying to enable xgl in Suse 10.2, but i get the following output:

Bennie:~ # gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
Warning! MD5DIR is not set: you probably called this script outside SuSEconfig...!
Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"...
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config

I couldn't find any information on this error in the xgl troubleshooting pages. Can someone please help me?

Thank you.
SnagaDuath

[valemon]

A possible way to enable xgl would be the following:
start Yast,System->/etc/sysconfig Editor->Desktop->Display manager->DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER and set it to Xgl. Let me know if this worked

[SnagaDuath]

That worked thx a lot!

[valemon]

You are welcome SnagaDuath. Good distro choice

[SnagaDuath]

uhm... okay, i created /home/<username>/bin/kde-start-compiz, following instructions on this site Using Xgl on SUSE Linux - openSUSE. Then i restarted...and now none of my windows have borders... can't seem to fix it... i renamed the file and restarted again, but no luck... any idea what went wrong?

[valemon]

That seems to be a bug because I am facing the same problem from time to time. I get it fixed by right clicking on the beryl icon in the taskbar and select reload windows manager. Also make sure that Beryl is selected as your windows manager.

[SnagaDuath]

Cool. One last thing ...i think

Beryl doesn't load automatically when xgl starts, and it's not listed in YaST --> System --> /etc/sysconfig Editor --> Desktop --> Window Manager --> DEFAULT_WM.

How do i get it to start automatically?

[bigtomrodney]

If you are using Gnome you can add it under the startup tab of Gnome Session Properties in the Gnome Control Center.

If you are using KDE you can add a shortuct or script to start it in ~/.kde (where ~ represents your home directory, and .kde is a hidden folder).

[EclipseAgent]

If you are using Gnome you can add it under the startup tab of Gnome Session Properties in the Gnome Control Center.

If you are using KDE you can add a shortuct or script to start it in ~/.kde (where ~ represents your home directory, and .kde is a hidden folder).

If I am not mistaken it is actually ~/.kde/Autostart

When you create the script make sure you chmod +x the script... for example:

touch ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz.sh
^ Creates the file

chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/startcompiz.sh
^ Allows it to execute

The real questions are, what are you trying to accomplish? Beryl has been depreciated and has been replaced with Compiz Fusion.

What video card are you running?

You can check:

Ben Kevan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Compiz Fusion on openSuSE 10.2 for some basic instrucitons on installing Compiz Fusion

Ben Kevan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 Release | Installed on openSUSE 10.2 then that one for changes in the repo used from Cyberorg to the SUSE supported one.

Thanks

[SnagaDuath]

Okay... I unistalled Beryl and downloaded compiz from the first repository. That didn't work too well, so i downloaded the stuff from the second repository and got a whole bunch of errors that i resolved by deleting some of the things i downloaded from the first repository.

So here's what i have now:
xgl is enabled and theres a script that is supposed to start compiz when kde loads. I have widow decorations and i can change themes using emerald theme manager. But i can't find compiz... there's only the CompizConfig settings manager in the menu. And if i enable additional plugins using that and restart kde they aren't activated.

The following plugins do work: wobbly, fade, cube, rotate, scale.

Thx for your help!