Beryl

[Matthew Voss]

I had to install xgl. It works great now, but It for some reason I can only
use ubuntu classic icons.
Goo

On 8/1/07, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 02:42 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> > Well, it's getting better and better, but still no cigar. I rebooted
> > (power off, power on) and to my great joy my single-monitor radeon
> > driver X configuration came back without the annoying clone monitor
> > image.
>
> Boo hiss, no it didn't. What I didn't know was that the "enable
> restricted driver" dialog changes the driver in the xorg.conf file to
> "fglrx"! (I thought it twiddled a bit in the ATI hardware). So I
> actually had the fglrx driver there.
>
> I give up: Maybe someday I'll try installing Xgl, right now it seems way
> too much time to invest for a bit of eye candy.
>
> I just tried radeon/xinerama for fun, since I was up to my eyeballs in X
> configs anyway. It works OK, but doesn't handle different monitor
> resolutions very well. Also there doesn't seem to be any way to control
> window placement, which takes a bit of the usefulness out of it.
> Metacity doesn't seem to quite understand it - when I go to hide the a
> task panel, it slides over to the other screen. Rather like an ostrich,
> it thinks I can't see it :-)
>
> With fglrx and xinerama the cursor on the external monitor disappears,
> which is even MORE useless. Ah well - back to dual desktops :-)
>
> Sorry for the noise,
>
> Regards, K.
>
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