setting up beryl

[James Takac]

On Monday 13 August 2007 16:45:50 cj wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:50 -0600, cj wrote:
> >> when i load it, it takes away my menu bars (the ones on the
> >> top/bottom
> >> of my screen) and it removes the window boarders.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/InstallingBeryl
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BerylOnFeisty
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/BerylOnXgl
>
> ok so i open the beryl-manager to change a setting (and it doesnt matter
> what setting, it always does this) and it crashes telling me that
>
> "Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0';
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the window manager."
>
>
> i am 100% sure that my card is compatible because i run games on this
> card that require aiglx and they work perfectly.
>
> i am using an ATI radeon Xpress200. it handles any sort of gl oriented
> program just fine except beryl
>
> it also tells me that there is no composit extension. yet i have
> libxcomposite1 downloaded and installed
>
> --cj

Hi cj

What grafix card r u using? May help to figure things out

James