Geeks at Work: fixing the Beryl blank window on Ubuntu

Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Geeks at Work, Ubuntu

After going dual monitor on my Ubuntu box I tried to install Beryl, because I am a graphics whore.

I thought it all worked well until I opened my usual dozen of windows, and discovered that new windows were coming up without any content (black / blank / transparent).

A quick search on the wonderful ubuntu forums revealed this behavior as a known nVidia bug, with a quite easy solution: Beryl->Advanced Beryl options->Rendering Path->Copy.

I tried this solution and it works like a charm. Now my graphic whoreness is satisfied :)

Permalink | Comments (7) | Mar 19, 2007

7 Responses to “Geeks at Work: fixing the Beryl blank window on Ubuntu”

  1. Geeks at Work: Feisty Fawn and the missing window borders with Beryl -- A Tempest of Thoughts Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 1:27 am

    [...] what was happening I opened a terminal window and it was blank. I was lucky I rememberd my previous post, and the fix worked even for the window [...]

  2. elysium1298 Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 2:16 am

    Great it fix the problem with my nvidia card. thanks

  3. Giovanni Intini Says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 3:14 am

    Glad I could help :)

  4. Patrick He Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 3:31 am

    Could you tell me where is the Beryl menu? I can’t find it on my Ubuntu 6.10 system.

    Thanks in advance.

  5. Giovanni Intini Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    It’s in the menu that appears when you click the beryl-manager button.

  6. Farva Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Beryl manager? I see no such thing.

  7. Giovanni Intini Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 1:46 am

    Try launching beryl-manager from the commandline.