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PennyroyalFrog
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 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: How do I start Beryl in/with KDE/KDM [SOLVED] |
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I read that Beryl is the new compiz-quinnstorm, so I emerged all the neccessary packages. I couldn't find in the XGL Howto on the gentoo wiki how to edit compiz-decorator to start beryl as soon as kde starts. Anybody have any idea how to do this properly? Thanks.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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well, i created this wrapper script:
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#!/bin/sh
dbus-launch beryl-manager
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placed it in /usr/bin/beryl-wrapper, chmod a+x, then added this line to /etc/env.d/99kde-env:
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KDEWM=beryl-wrapper
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and did an env-update.
(don't get me wrong, i don't like gnome nor kde, but i wanted to mess with beryl to make some buddies jealous, and gnome doesn't work properly with dualhead setups whereas kde does)
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PennyroyalFrog
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmmm okay, I tried that. However, I get no animated effects, ie: wobbly windows, cube, etc. |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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did you try to "dry-run" beryl to see if it worked? did you relog?
check the beryl icon (the red diamond) in your system try, right click it, and check what window-manager is selected... beryl has a tendency to just bail out if something's wrong and the beryl-manager script will then revert to the fall-back window manager that can be configured in that menu...
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PennyroyalFrog
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Yea looks like beryl fails, the WM selected was Metacity. How can I troubleshoot this? |
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Jupiter1TX
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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you sould try a dry run with some of the existing
files provided by Beryl
/usr/bin/beryl-manager
/usr/bin/beryl-start
if one of those works then i would suggest going here
and check out how to set them up for auto start
for nvidia
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_nVidia_GL_Desktop_Effects
or here for more general help
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Main_Page
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, I tried running "dbus-launch beryl-manager" and it worked, so i tried again what mdeininger said and it worked also. I don't know what I did differently but all well. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| PennyroyalFrog wrote: | | Okay, I tried running "dbus-launch beryl-manager" and it worked, so i tried again what mdeininger said and it worked also. I don't know what I did differently but all well. |
weird... well, glad it worked out! 
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