Getting Beryl to work

[javierrivera]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Well, I did as Javier said and added a new user and now it works...woho, great, thanks alot - but still i wonder what the difference it makes.

Most likely something in the KDE configuration. You can log in with your old user and start changing things .

Javier.

[Samme]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

I guess i f**cked everything up now, here's what I did...

I was logged in with my username (x), deleted account x and created a new one, y, and now everything is f**cked, I can't sudo or anything...arrrgh...is there a solution to get the same rights that my old account had or do I have to reinstall?

Did this so I could use Beryl, instead of using the test-account I made earlier.

[javierrivera]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Not bad .

You will need to add your new account to the admin group. Boot on failsafe mode (in the GRUB menu). You should be taken to a command prompt.

# usermod -G admin y
[code]

Now reboot, y should be able to sudo now. Add it to all the groups that are important. I will give you the actual setup of my box as a guide.

[code]
$ groups
javier adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner admin vboxusers

Where javier is my user name. vboxusers is only needed if you use Virtual Box.

Javier.[/code][/code]

[Samme]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Thanks alot for your help, you're at great resource to a forum like this

[Samme]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

I've got another question, now that we,ve got Beryl working, I want it to autostart instead of Kwin, so i followed the following guide:

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache...1&client=opera

But it doesn't seem to work, have any idea how to fix this?

[dibl]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Sure.

You need to put a copy of the beryl-manager icon in your /home/samme/.kde/Autostart folder.

[Samme]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Ohh, I see, and how do i do that?

[MailmanTX]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Ohh, I see, and how do i do that?

Pretty simple Samme,

using whatever file browser you have (I use Konqueror so I'll state my steps using that):

1. Open your home director in Kon - click view->show all hidden files
2. Find the folder ".kde" in the expanded view of your home directory and open it
3. Find the "Autostart" folder inside ".kde" and open that
4. Copy and Paste the Beryl icon from your K-menu into the folder (i.e. open the menu inside K-menu that has "Beryl-Manager", drag and drop "Beryl Manager" into the window with the "Autostart" and click "Copy here").

Hope that helps (you can do this with any other programs you want to open at startup like email, instant messaging service, etc.)

peace.

EDIT: The only thing I'm not sure of is whether or not Beryl will default to using Beryl and not KWin when IT starts... I think this setting can be changed inside the Beryl Settings Manager (that would seem to make sense to me )

[dibl]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

Beryl is still a little shaky when it comes to holding its default settings, at least on my setup. If I right-click the Beryl icon and choose "Quit", before I log out of Kubuntu, then upon re-boot it will run automatically with Beryl as the window manager. But if I just shutdown while Beryl is running, then upon reboot Beryl will run (the icon will appear on the taskbar) but the window manager is KWin, and I will have to manually change it to Beryl. Your mileage may vary, of course ...

[Snowhog]

Re: Getting Beryl to work

If I right-click the Beryl icon and choose "Quit", before I log out of Kubuntu, then upon re-boot it will run automatically with Beryl as the window manager. But if I just shutdown while Beryl is running, then upon reboot Beryl will run (the icon will appear on the taskbar) but the window manager is KWin, and I will have to manually change it to Beryl. Your mileage may vary, of course ...

Given that Beryl has a setting for the fall-back window manager which will launch 'if Beryl crashes,' I'm wondering if during a shutdown while Beryl is running, if Beryl isn't actually being stopped 'politely' and so, actually experiences a minor crash. Would be an explanation for why Kwin is the window manager upon reboot. (BTW, I experience this same behavior with Beryl on my setup.)