Beryl not affecting KDE
 

On my Dell laptop (ATI x1400 video card) I have installed FC6. I then installed beryl as per the instructions at:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install/Fedora_Core

I added the script to start it when I log in:
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ cd .kde/Autostart/
[dotancohen@localhost Autostart]$ ls -l
total 8
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dotancohen dotancohen 27 ינו 26 12:46 beryl.sh
[dotancohen@localhost Autostart]$ cat beryl.sh
#! /bin/bash
beryl-manager
[dotancohen@localhost Autostart]$

However, it doesn't do anything! KDE is exactly as it was before. No
wobbly windows, etc. I've lookin in beryl-settings but I don't see
anything that would prevent it from functioning. What should I check?
We're having company come over this evening and I'd like for them to
see what Fedora is, with eye candy. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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Before you go automating it, make sure that if you manually run (when X is running, you're logged in to KDE)
you get Beryl running and see all the eye-candy. Only after this try automating it. This is for a simple reason: if you can't manually run it, you know the problem is somewhere in running Beryl, or if you can manually run it, you know that if the automated launch doesn't work, the problem is in the automation, not in running Beryl itself.

You did install the KDE-"version" of Beryl, didn't you (as I believe there are different versions for KDE and Gnome)?

I also noticed myself that even if I had Beryl automatically starting when I log into KDE, it started but not completely; I still had to manually run beryl-manager to get the window decorations on (for example without it the windows didn't have the bar at the top with the three boxes on the right and window caption on the left). No idea why this was, but actually I don't care; even with ATI's Radeon 9200 card and 3d drivers, good fps, Beryl was slow when trying to scroll pages on a browser, for example. It was fast enough on other aspects, but slow web page scrolling was a pain in the ass :)

There's only one version of Beryl, but there's a window decorator called Aquamarine for it which uses your existing KDE window theme instead of an Emerald theme. Beryl runs fine on KDE without it, however.

I did in fact install the kde version of beryl:
# yum install beryl-kde

Now, beryl-manager crashes KDE, as does glxinfo. What can I do?

I stand corrected? Perhaps that's a Fedora Core thing, there's no such package for Kubuntu or mentioned on the Beryl website.

It does seem to be a Fedora thing.

Still, I cannot start beryl-manager without having X crash. Please, what can I check to diagnos?

Dotan Cohen

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It is a Fedora package, sorry I didn't mention that explicitly. Anyway, for me it worked great (Radeon 9200 +open source drivers, Core 6, installed beryl about a week ago). Can you see any messages if you start your KDE first without Beryl, then launch a terminal and start
from there? Any (error or warning) output could be of help. Also your /var/log/Xorg.0.log might contain something interesting about the crash if it has something to do with X and not just KDE.

I don't see anything, but if you can take a look maybe you'll see something:
http://dotancohen.com/Xorg.0.log

My last actions were crashing X by opening beryl-manager twice: once in KDE, and again in Gnome.

Dotan Cohen

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I think that might just be your error, its the only thing i can see in the log, (is it normal to use fb and vesa?)Im not sure if that is an error or a switch into xgl? dont really know what im on about though

Im setting beryl right now on debian sid, havent got this far yet though.