[opensuse] Stuck with Beryl
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine leaving compiz and xgl. Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl Any suggestions, please? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand ie. "aquamarine --replace" E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand
ie. "aquamarine --replace"
So I'd have to re-install all those packages? I'll give it a go :) -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand
ie. "aquamarine --replace"
So I'd have to re-install all those packages? I'll give it a go :)
-- Bob
Why reinstall? just run emerald/aquamarine and then beryl-manager E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:56, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand
ie. "aquamarine --replace"
So I'd have to re-install all those packages? I'll give it a go :)
-- Bob
Why reinstall? just run emerald/aquamarine and then beryl-manager
Because I'd previously removed them. What was strange, was that the effects persisted even after I'd removed them. -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 14:20, Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:56, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand
ie. "aquamarine --replace"
So I'd have to re-install all those packages? I'll give it a go :)
-- Bob
Why reinstall? just run emerald/aquamarine and then beryl-manager
Because I'd previously removed them. What was strange, was that the effects persisted even after I'd removed them.
Bad form to reply to your own posts, but I need to report back that all is well. Somewhere along the line, compiz got upgraded from 0.2 to 0.5 (seemed like a good idea at the time), but it was incompatible with all the other bits and pieces. Downgrading has restored my window title bars, etc. So, that's lifted my spirits enough to try Compiz-Fusion (see Tom Parker's post lower down this thread). But maybe not yet, daughter's getting married on Saturday and I *still* haven't written that speech :(
-- Bob
openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS
-- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
If you are in an experimenting mood. I would recommend going to Compiz-Fusion and skipping Beryl. Beryl is no longer being developed. Compiz-fusion is the merger between the old compiz and the old beryl and it looks great. It is very easily configured and seems to be mostly stable on two of my systems (one using an ATI card and the other with an NVidia card) There are some instructions here http://moosy.blogspot.com/search/label/compiz%20fusion (Scroll down) although they needed to be modified a little bit (I use Smart as my package manager) to install the packages. Suse has a some git-snapshopts here that take most of the work out. Just install compiz-git-all and it will get what you need. (http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.2) Hope this helps. Tom Bob Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl
It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager, uninstalled all the beryl packages using YaST, that is
beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-settings emerald emerald-themes aquamarine
leaving compiz and xgl.
Unfortunately, nothing's changed :( My desktops are still on the faces of a rotating cube, my windows have no title bars, and my theme has reverted to KDE-standard. This behaviour survives logging out/in and even rebooting. I've even deleted ~/.beryl
Any suggestions, please?
Try running aquamarine (or emerald) by hand
ie. "aquamarine --replace"
So I'd have to re-install all those packages? I'll give it a go :)
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On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:59 -0400, Tom Parker wrote:
If you are in an experimenting mood. I would recommend going to Compiz-Fusion and skipping Beryl. Beryl is no longer being developed.
Seriously? Ok, time to fireup smart. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:59 -0400, Tom Parker wrote:
If you are in an experimenting mood. I would recommend going to Compiz-Fusion and skipping Beryl. Beryl is no longer being developed.
Compiz-fusion is the merger between the old compiz and the old beryl and it looks great. It is very easily configured and seems to be mostly stable on two of my systems (one using an ATI card and the other with an NVidia card)
There are some instructions here http://moosy.blogspot.com/search/label/compiz%20fusion (Scroll down) although they needed to be modified a little bit (I use Smart as my package manager) to install the packages.
Suse has a some git-snapshopts here that take most of the work out. Just install compiz-git-all and it will get what you need. (http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.2)
Hope this helps.
Tom
One word - Wow!! its actually beginning to be fast enough to use all day (not just to show off to Win users :) Even on my crappy onboard Intel Dell laptop. Congrats to the Beryl and Compiz people. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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