emerald themes

[nikkiwikki]

I just got Beryl set up on my new HP laptop with a nvidia graphic card. Everything on Beryl is working fine but the Emerald Themes won't load up. The Emerald Manager is there and I can see all the Emerald themes but I cannot change the themes or even load them. Can someone help me. Thanks

[dibl]

Re: emerald themes

If you right-click the Beryl icon on your taskbar, and then choose "Window Decorator", do you see Emerald as an option to "x"?

[nikkiwikki]

Re: emerald themes

When I right click on Beryl Manager and go to "Select Windows Decorator" I have two options

1. Standard Beryl Decorator (Emerald) which is selected
2. Heliodor

[dibl]

Re: emerald themes

OK, and then if you click "Reload Windows Decorator" (next menu item up), do you have the borders that you chose in Emerald Themes?

[nikkiwikki]

Re: emerald themes

I did that and it didn't work. Like I have been reloading the windows decorator for the pass hour now and I just decided to seek help. I don't get the border where the minimize, maximize and close buttons are. Beryl runs like a charm just that emerald doesn't come up

[dibl]

Re: emerald themes

Aha -- so you have the famous "missing window decorator" problem?

OK, in addition to the zillion posts on this forum and at Ubuntu Forums on that particular little devil, I will advise you that you probably do not have glx and/or compositing set correctly in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Without knowing which Nvidia card and driver you have, try this in a console window and see what happens:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite

and let us know if you see any smoke ....

{ little joke there }

[Martijn van Es]

Re: emerald themes

That sounds like something i hat to. In my case i installed Beryl from adept and probably missed some packages.
To solve this i went to the Beryl website and followed the Feisty Fawn installation instructions:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I...eryl_on_Ubuntu

Good luck!

[nikkiwikki]

Re: emerald themes

I tired that and nothing happen. I do get the following error message which I should have posted before.

Reloading options
beryl: No GLXFBConfig for depth 32


I looked in my xorg.conf and realise that I only go to depth 24..

[SheeEttin]

Re: emerald themes

They're the same thing in reality.

As for how to fix it, I don't know. I'm sure someone else does.

[dibl]

Re: emerald themes

Yep. You need to set

DefaultDepth 24

in your xorg.conf. Back it up first, then open it with kdesu kate and find where it says

DefaultDepth 32

, and change the 32 to 24.

Or, if there is a mode in the "Screens" stanza that is depth=32, you need to comment that out by putting a "#" in front of that line.

[nikkiwikki]

Re: emerald themes

Hey guys it worked. Thanks for all the help. After doing that it worked like a charm. Now I'm cool . Thanks again for the help you all