Beryl Help!!!!

Hi guys

I have just installed Beryl Via YUM with

yum install beryl

Everything was installed, but I havnt a clue how to use the bloody thing, It comes up in my menu, I use KDE btw. And when I launch beryl manager it loads and nothing happens. How do I change themes or anything, I am using Fedora 7. I have no problems with installation just on basic operation lol

please help.

[Seve]

Hello:
You may want to have a brief read through the user guide.
The New Users Guide to Beryl

Seve

Hey guys

I got it to work, but I have to manually start the thing everytime. How do I get it to automatically start as my defualt window manager. and My cube is not a cube. I can switch desktops with a slide effect, but where is my cube

help

[JN4OldSchool]

you are using KDE, autostart sucks for kde. Go into your /home and click view-show hidden files. Go to .kde and autostart. right click an empty area inside the file browser and select create new - text file. Then paste this into it:

Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=beryl-manager &
GenericName[en_US]=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TermninalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-autostart-after=kdesktop

Then restart your user and it should autostart Beryl.

oops, my bad. Call this file "beryl.desktop" not sure the name matters but why chance it?

hi guys

I tried that but i get a error message saying "type =..... has no entry"

[bowens44]

Originally Posted by keatonvictor

Hey guys

I got it to work, but I have to manually start the thing everytime. How do I get it to automatically start as my defualt window manager.

help

This is how I did the autostart and it works well for me. This was posted by user SebbeJohan in the Ubuntu Forums but it works perfectly with fedora and KDE



"To create the session shell script, open up your favourite text editor (eg gedit or kedit) as Root and create a new script named startberyl.sh:
Code:

gksudo gedit /usr/bin/startberyl.sh

For KDE, use kdesu instead of gksudo

#!/bin/sh
export KDEWM="/usr/bin/beryl-manager"
exec startkde

Now you need to make the script executable; this can be done in Nautilus or Konqueror (running as Root) by right-clicking the file and choosing Properties, or in the terminal:
Code:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/startberyl.sh

To create the session, create the file /usr/share/xsessions/Beryl.desktop, and give it the following contents in a text editor (again, as root or using gksudo/kdesu):
Code:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/xsessions/Beryl.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Beryl
Exec=/usr/bin/startberyl.sh
Icon=
Type=Application

Now when GDM or KDM starts, you should have a session called Beryl available for selection; if you log into this session, Beryl will run (via the startberyl.sh script) and load GNOME or KDE for you. Logging into your normal session will give you a standard, un-accelerated desktop for troubleshooting or running programs which don't play nicely with AIGLX."

[igknighted]

It's not the "official" way, but I've always just linked the binary into the kde autostart folder:

ln -s /usr/bin/beryl-manager ~/.kde/Autostart/

[PabloTwo]

Quote from keatonvictor

Hi guys

I have just installed Beryl Via YUM with

yum install beryl

I may be way off the mark here, as I don't run F7 or KDE, but I can't help but wonder if having used:

yum install beryl-kde emerald emerald-themes

wouldn't have possibly made configuration and use under KDE a tab easier(?)

Paul

Hi Guys

Everythign is working. I used the symbolic linking mentioned by igknighted

cheers (Y)