beryl complete white screen, cant see a way around it

briancurtin · 2006-11-29 06:06:26

i followed the wiki page to install beryl on my arch laptop and got as far as running beryl-manager...but i didnt have window decorations. so i followed the troubleshooting line for not having window decorations but that didnt help.

the bigger problem is that i got into my normally functioning gnome and set beryl-xgl as a startup application and i now have no control over anything...and im not sure how i can either take that out, or add beryl-manager in there on startup, or fix this 100% white screen problem.

when i was just running beryl-manager from the CLI after getting this first setup, if i opened any windows after my first terminal, they would be all white and also have no window decorations.

i know i have a few issues here, but does anyone have any pointers for me on this? all i can do is rotate the big white cube

Acid7711 · 2006-11-29 07:40:56

I noticed this problem in Arch too, but never experienced it when I was in Gentoo and used Beryl.

To get around it, I had both kde and gnome installed. I simply went into kde, started beryl-manager and set it back to the default kwin theme manager. Then went back into gnome and removed beryl-xgl from session startup, but left beryl-manager. Then I used beryl-manager in gnome to turn the theme manager back to beryl and haven't had any more issues with it

Hope this sheds some light, I know it's a lot of work, but it fixed it. Shouldn't have to go through all of that though, imo...Arch is the only distro that it's done that for me in. Weird.

sash · 2006-11-30 00:01:07

I tried beryl for the first time last night. Followed the wiki and got the same white screen result.

After removing the arguments for beryl, it started and functioned fine. Go figure...

exec /usr/bin/beryl

briancurtin · 2006-11-30 00:58:30

i'll try it as just "beryl"

how would i go about changing the gnome startup programs from outside of gnome though? my XFCE is now messed up as well because i started beryl-manager, it took the window decorations away, then i logged out of XFCE (and of course i happened to have the box checked to save my session...ugh)...so now i cant do anything from XFCE to fix gnome.

im not sure where i'd find these session settings through the CLI, so now im really stuck.

McQueen · 2006-11-30 04:30:08

briancurtin wrote:

my XFCE is now messed up as well because i started beryl-manager, it took the window decorations away, then i logged out of XFCE (and of course i happened to have the box checked to save my session...ugh)...so now i cant do anything from XFCE to fix gnome.

Check the contents of ~/.config/xfce4-session

briancurtin · 2006-12-02 02:29:28

haha well i got myself back into XFCE, pacman -Syu'ed, rebooted, kernel panic and now i have to let the battery drain to turn the laptop off.
nice. time to reinstall...

nous · 2006-12-03 00:10:08

briancurtin wrote:

Syu'ed, rebooted, kernel panic and now i have to let the battery drain to turn the laptop off.

Or you could just keep the power button pressed for 5 seconds

briancurtin · 2006-12-03 06:12:04

nous wrote:

briancurtin wrote:
Syu'ed, rebooted, kernel panic and now i have to let the battery drain to turn the laptop off.
Or you could just keep the power button pressed for 5 seconds

i held the button in for over a minute before i posted that. i just had to let it drain

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#1 2006-11-29 06:06:26

beryl complete white screen, cant see a way around it

#2 2006-11-29 07:40:56

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