Re: [Sheflug] Beryl

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex

> I have only got compiz, which is less crack-y than beryl but with
> many of the same effects. It works great with the stock free
> software ATI and Intel drivers; I only occasionally run into
> problems with OOo upsetting the system.

Thanks to this M$/Novell thing I've had to throw openSuSE away due to 
the fact that people shout at me when I go to public events.  I tried 
Ubuntu Edy Eft for a while but it was full of bugs and not what I 
wanted.  Got the legacy Nvidia drivers working but couldn't get Beryl 
or Compiz going. 

I tried to install Debian Etch but Grub wouldn't boot after I 
installed it and so now I'm on Fedora Core 6 which is also full of 
bugs.  Such as, the desktop doesn't load until I do '/usr/bin/kdm' on 
the command line.  After loading KDE 3.5.6 is very stable.  I'll 
probably use Etch when it is realeased.

Can you help with my own Beryl stuff ?  If I do something 
like 'apt-get install beryl' on my FC6 machine it says... (yes, I 
don't like YUM)

The following extra packages will be installed:
   aquamarine (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   bdock (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-core (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-gnome (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-kde (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-manager (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-plugins (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-settings (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   beryl-settings-simple (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   emerald (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   emerald-themes (0.2.0-1.fc6)
   heliodor (0.2.0-1.fc6)

Do I have to change the "/etc/X11/xog.conf" file or do anything else 
to get it to work ?




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Richard

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