Comments on: No Borders With Beryl and NVIDIA AIGLX

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:59:17 +0000

Thank you!! I was having a lot of trouble fixing this problem, but this solved it!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:23:42 +0000

It broke my xserver :(

By: nlindblad

nlindblad — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:10:56 +0000

@Kris: What version of the nvidia driver? Are you *sure* you’re using AIGLX and not the XGL version of the X server?

By: Sitekeeper

Sitekeeper — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:25:04 +0000

Thanks for this, solved my only problem in PCLinux 2007

Sitekeeper

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:31:04 +0000

I am not able to edit xorg.conf because it is “Read Only”. I am having this “no-borders” problem as well, but I can’t seem to get permission to add the above code to xorg.conf. Any suggestions?

By: nlindblad

nlindblad — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:40:44 +0000

Edit it as root. On Ubuntu, run ‘gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf’ which will open a text editor as root and allow you to modify the configuration file.

If your distribution does not offer sudo you can su to the root user in a shell and run ‘nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf’ and edit it.

By: Skobbolop

Skobbolop — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:22:49 +0000

Worked perfectly…. thank you!

By: Todd Davis

Todd Davis — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:50:41 +0000

Just as a side note, I was having this problem for several weeks and had tried all of the above to no avail. I finally found out that you MUST run at a 24bit color depth or it won’t work at all. To do this, edit you /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (as root) and make sure that DefaultDepth is set to 24, and that a section exists for that depth.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:05:29 +0000

I tried editing this and it said that there was an error and I couldn’t even get into Linux. I don’t know how to change it now, it just gives me a command line. Any help, please..

By: Monty

Monty — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:11:14 +0000

I am fairly new to Linux, but I am trying very hard. I have googled this same type of problem and I went back and re-edited the X11 config file, but I am still loosing boarder around my open windows and also the windows are not movable once they are opened. This only happens when I open Beryl Manager. I have copied my X11 file amd ask that someone please help me. I followed the instruction from the openSuse 10.2 Beryl howto page and installed the Nvidia drivers with the help of the Nvidia howto page.

Can someone please help me out?

Thanks in advance.

Monty

# /…/
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2007-03-23T21:23:19-0400.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer , 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
FontPath “unix/:7100″
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
Load “type1″
Load “extmod”
Load “dbe”
Load “freetype”
Load “v4l”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
Option “XkbModel” “pc104″
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86″
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “9″
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2″
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 304 228
HorizSync 30-61
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “SONY SDM-S51″
Option “DPMS”
VendorName “SNY”
VertRefresh 43-65
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1024×768″ 69.71 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 798
Modeline “1024×600″ 53.78 1024 1072 1176 1328 600 601 604 623
Modeline “800×600″ 42.11 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 623
Modeline “768×576″ 38.56 768 800 880 992 576 577 580 598
Modeline “640×480″ 25.95 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 499
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1024×768″ “1024×600″ “800×600″ “768×576″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1024×768″ “1024×600″ “800×600″ “768×576″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1024×768″ “1024×600″ “800×600″ “768×576″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1024×768″ “1024×600″ “800×600″ “768×576″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce FX 5200 (0×0322)”
BusID “1:0:0″
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVidia”
Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”
Option “DRI” “true”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
Option “RenderAccel” “True”
Option “AllowGLXWithComposite” “True”
Option “backingstore” “True”
Option “TripleBuffer” “True”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
Option “AIGLX” “true”
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
EndSection

By: danny c

danny c — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:38:52 +0000

Todd Davis wrote (in short) :
“Just as a side note” … “you MUST run at a 24bit color depth”

yup , this worked for me too

By: alex

alex — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:40:25 +0000

hi nice site.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:46:15 +0000

Thanks a lot, solved my problems with beryl :)

By: Osman S Borutecene

Osman S Borutecene — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:49:17 +0000

Hi there, same problem here. I solved it through just adding this line to xorg.conf

Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”

Other lines wasn’t necessary for me. I am using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

By: Sjosul

Sjosul — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:50:41 +0000

I had the same problem - as with Osman, just adding the line to device section in xorg.comp fixed it…

By: Alexander Swithin

Alexander Swithin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:36:55 +0000

*applauds*

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:42:58 +0000

Just upgraded by version of ubunto to Feisty Fawn, which turned my machine in to a virtual washing machine, broke beryl, etc.
I could have same myself much agro if found this web machine faster, it got beryl working like a dream.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:06:26 +0000

Oh, so close.

This little tweak added a title bar and window border… for Firefox, but Gaim and Thunderbird (and probably other apps) weren’t so lucky. Also, couldn’t move the window anyways.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:51:31 +0000

Also crashed my computer as well. I think my problem was different though. My terminal was just a white block. I couldn’t see what I was typing or anything. Time to reinstall yet again…I should really start backing up my files.

By: Ernz

Ernz — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:33:57 +0000

This was very helpful. Worked for me. Can I suggest however to anyone trying this to BACKUP your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file BEFORE trying this. At least that way if it messes up you can enter recovery mode and restore previous settings. Thanks again.

By: fookanen

fookanen — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:29:25 +0000

After adding the above to my xorg.conf, I stil did not have window borders. I just needed to select a window decorator other than Beryl (for me it was Metacity).

By: Ghydda

Ghydda — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:15:23 +0000

Unfortunately this made no improvement for me.
Didn’t make it worse either.

But thanks for the suggestions.

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By: TAMAS SULYOK

TAMAS SULYOK — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:31:31 +0000

After a few weeks of headache and fucking around the x.org system and nvidia glx new driver setup i have found the problem.After reading the reviews this is the missing part.Go Beryl settings>Window managament-check set window attribs by various criteria>window borders (disable /enable).Before this I added the x.org options from the beginning of this page.I am using Linux Mint Cassandra and my videocard is geforce 7800 Gt.After reformatting my hard drive 4 times and almost breaking my Sony flatscreen I hope this will help for YOu My Friends

By: Tobi

Tobi — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:36:26 +0000

Hi,
I looked at this manual and many others and still was not able to figure it out. I still have no borders. I use a GeForce Go 7400 an HP Dv6203tx with Kubuntu 7.04, 64 bit.

I’d appreciate it, if someone could tell me what I got wrong!!!

Here is my config:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi”
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “bitmap”
Load “ddc”
Load “dri”
Load “extmod”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
Load “int10″
Load “v4l”
Load “vbe”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ImPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “stylus”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “eraser”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “eraser”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “cursor”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400″
Driver “nvidia”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0″
Option “UseFBDev” “true”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
Option “DRI” “true”
Option “RenderAccel” “True”
Option “AllowGLXWithComposite” “True”
Option “backingstore” “True”
Option “TripleBuffer” “True”
Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 28-64
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400″
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 1
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 4
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection

By: RIVE

RIVE — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:56:17 +0000

Thank you!. just works in my desktop.

You have save me a lot of time asking google.

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:39:21 +0000

it works like a charm, thanks.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:23:47 +0000

hi all.

By: Attila

Attila — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:02:20 +0000

Worked for me. Im a noob when it comes to linux. So I forgot to restart X….
Don’t forget to restart X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to enable the changes.

By: Jamwad

Jamwad — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:31:06 +0000

Thanks so much for this… worked perfectly!

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:32:16 +0000

Marry me?

By: Tomciaaa

Tomciaaa — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:09:56 +0000

I could kiss you :-* Finally a solution that actually works. Thanks x infinity

By: torz

torz — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:38:07 +0000

thanx a lot. this border problem was the point where i almost gave up on beryl

By: clancy

clancy — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:37:59 +0000

hey im running fedora 7 how can i open that file it says read only …

idont know how to use the terminal that well so be specific

By: nlindblad

nlindblad — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:28:52 +0000

@clancy: You will probably have to do it as root, use the ’su’ command to become the root user and then open the file with nano or vim.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:30:28 +0000

Thanks

By: RANJOT SINGH

RANJOT SINGH — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:51:53 +0000

can n e plz tell me if the above settings work for nvidia-geforce fx 5200 ??
actually when i added the Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
line and i restarted the comp and then iit couldnt start ,jus a black screen with a cursor blinking.
Befroe i made the change beryl was working fine except for the borders (where the close ,minimise ,maximize tabs are there).
so can n e one plz help .

By: Blackie

Blackie — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:27:44 +0000

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:22:14 +0000

Thank you very much!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:33:06 +0000

Wow! Finally, was not sure that I would figure this out, not sure if it was the 24 bit depth or what was preventing any window managers but it is working now on my 6800XE and it is SWEET!