I installed Beryl recently on a Fedora Core 6 setup. I was in a Gnome session and was playing around with Beryl and decided to give Compiz a try. When I selected it, the screen froze up and the taskbar went all goofy and I couldn't do anything.

It saved the setting and now every time I log into a Gnome session, it tries to load Compiz and locks up the screen.

I have beryl-manager automatically starting whenever I start a Gnome session. Is there a way to fix the beryl-manager so it either doesn't start up or it starts with Beryl instead of Compiz?

And if I can get it to not start up, how would I go about changing the settings of the beryl-manager so it selects Beryl instead of Compiz when it starts?

As a last resort, how do you uninstall Beryl?

When you open Beryl-manager, there's an option to restart Beryl to default. That should solve your problem.
As for loging into Gnome, it should be an option in your login manager to log in safely (failsafe login). Use it to load beryl-manager. Otherwise you'll have to either install another desktop environment (like KDE or enlightenment) or uninstall beryl.

To unninstall Beryl, log into a TTY (ctrl+alt+F1 for example) log in as root and use "apt-get" command to uninstall the beryl packages.

Hope this helps

I don't think Fedora has apt-get. I know Ubuntu uses it. I usually use yum.

I already had KDE installed, that's the only session I could use other than the failsafe terminal.

The problem was that I couldn't do anything on my Gnome desktop or rather I couldn't do anything once beryl-manager was started. Both my KDE and Gnome sessions were completely frozen. I just did a yum remove beryl* and then yum install beryl and now everything is right with the world.

Thanks for the advice, though.

Fedora has apt-get as well (at least at version 5 had it). It has a GUI called Synaptic, but in the end, it's just a frontend for apt-get.
I'm gald you managed to get it working anyway.