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#1

I just installed beryl on my computer to take advantage of my 7800GT Nvidia GFX card, so I followed the How-To in this forum and it worked perfectly. I got in all installed but now that beryl is working I have a new problem. For some reason I don't have those three buttons on the top right corner of my firefox. Also I am missing the header bar and there is a huge gap between firefox and the bar at the bottom. I tried looking through beryl manager but couldn't find anything. If anyone knows how to fix it please do tell. Thanks in advance.

#2

This is one of the many bugs in Beryl. I had the same problem. There is a way to correct the problem, but it appeared to be very involved. Too much so for a newbie like me.

To correct my problem, I uninstalled Beryl and installed "Automatix Bleeder". This is an extension of Automatix2. One of the few programs that it (AB) installs is Beryl. I installed Beryl using it and for the first time saw Beryl the way it should look.

The only problem that I have is Swiftfox2 is running much more slowly. Beryl does everything that I have read that it should do, however.

#3

This is a well-known problem that has been raised many times in these forums. Fortunately, it is easily remedied. Check post #7 here.

#4

I'm a newbie, but here's what I do..

I had the same problem using compiz. I just open the terminal and type [gnome-window-decorator --replace]. This affected performance for me, but I'm on a laptop with shared video. Good luck:-)

#5

Thanks for the link Paul.