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basi18

Member

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 6

Can't set Beryl as Window Manager

Hello everybody,

i've just installed beryl.

Now i wanted to try it out, so i started "Beryl-Manager" and wanted to select Beryl as my window manager.

When i select Beryl as my window manager my screen starts to jitter for a few moments and then Metacity is still my window manager.

I didn't find a solution, hope that you can help me.

Thanks in advance

basi18

P.S. My graphic card is a geforce 6600gt

detox332

Member

From: University of Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 63

Re: Can't set Beryl as Window Manager

run beryl-manager from terminal to see if it spits out an error

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basi18

Member

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 6

Re: Can't set Beryl as Window Manager

I don't get an error message.

Does anyone know what my problem could be?

[EDIT] I'm still not able to start beryl as window manager. And i can't sign on in the beryl board to ask there, Somehow you can't sign in   [/EDIT]

Last edited by basi18 (2007-07-03 16:39:49)

saciel

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

Re: Can't set Beryl as Window Manager

There is just "something" that doesn't work. Metacity is probably set as "fallback wm" so beryl switches back when it encounters an error. Please start gnome without beryl, then open a console, type "beryl-manager" as advised above and post the output. Please tell me what options you want to use for beryl and what graphcis device you are using.
Having a look in you etc/X11/xorg.conf might be helpful, too.

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RobF

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 157

Re: Can't set Beryl as Window Manager

Have you read the following two wikis?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beryl
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … _Composite