Ubuntu - Beryl On Startup

[jjmcray]

Anyone know how to get Beryl to open on start up? Sorry, I'm new to Linux and I have to learn all the commands and etc.

[Blahages]

Do you have Beryl set up, and working? Or, have you not set it up yet?

If it's all set up and you just want to add it to start up, you should just have to go to "System" > "Preferences" or "Administration" (Sorry, I'm not in Ubuntu right now, and I always get mixed up on which one it is) and click the option similar to "Sessions" or "Startup and Sessions" and go to the Startup Tab, and add in "beryl-manager"

I'm doing that from memory, from the times I've installed Beryl, it's been a while, so I hope it's correct. If it's not, I'll check into it more.

[jjmcray]

I see the menu you're talking about, but I don't know where how to add beryl to it. I clicked "browse" but I don't know where to go to add beryl.

EDIT: I've already flood this forum so I'll ask another question... When I open Beryl Manager that icon doesn't appear in the top bar, and it doesn't let me change workspaces... Could this be because I changed the color depth?

[DouggyO.o]

haha well sounds like you made it farther then me on beryl. haha

[HopeScratchMcDougal]

Did you try making a bash script?

[jjmcray]

Did you try making a bash script?

Sorry, I got it working.

[DouggyO.o]

Youve got to tell me how. ive tryed like 5 times and each time it crashed my linux.

[jjmcray]

Youve got to tell me how. ive tryed like 5 times and each time it crashed my linux.

System > Preferences > Sessions > Click "New" > Type in Beryl for the name and for the command type in beryl > Type in Beryl Manager for the name and type in beryl-manager for the command.

[Blahages]

Youve got to tell me how. ive tryed like 5 times and each time it crashed my linux.

How far do you get before it crashes, and what does it do when it "crashes?"

I'm assuming it's Ubuntu we're talking about? Nvidia or ATI Video Card? Version 7.04? Did you install the Video Drivers? Install XGL?

Here's a howto on Ubuntu's site for Beryl (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BerylOnFeisty). There's a good on on Beryl's site, but apparently, according to their site, it's been defaced, so it's down right now.

Two good Resources for Ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org and http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

[Blahages]

I pulled this off the post you made on Ubuntuforums, so I'll reply here:

Hello I have some problems with Beryl. I just recently increased my color depth in Ubuntu to 24 bit, and it seems that beryl stopped working after that. But here's my problem, every time I open Beryl Manager that icon doesn't appear in the bar at the top of the screen... And I can't rotate the cube either. Maybe something else caused this problem.... Someone help please.

How were you starting Beryl? Did you have XGL installed, and did you load it by choosing it from the Sessions screen in GDM?

What do you get if you run


ps -ef|grep XIn terminal?

If you're running XGL, it should give you something similar to "Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -br -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer" as an output, otherwise, if it's just a normal Xserver, it'll probably give you X or Xorg

Here's what I get when I run the command, and mine works:


[email protected]:~$ ps -ef|grep X
root 5205 5204 0 16:00 tty7 00:00:09 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
blahages 5681 5637 2 16:00 ? 00:05:22 Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -br -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer
blahages 13907 13874 0 20:12 pts/0 00:00:00 grep X
[email protected]:~$


Also, does it work again if you change the color depth back to whatever it was set to before, as opposed to 24 bit?

[jjmcray]

Lol, it's okay now, I got it working... I've reinstall ubuntu since then for other problems.

[HopeScratchMcDougal]

System > Preferences > Sessions > Click "New" > Type in Beryl for the name and for the command type in beryl > Type in Beryl Manager for the name and type in beryl-manager for the command.

And if you're using KDE, put this in a .sh file:


#!/bin/sh
beryl-manager


I'd name it beryl.sh just so you know what it is.

Then put it in ~/.kde/Autostart/ and do this in a terminal:

cd ~/.kde/Autostart/
chmod +x beryl.sh
./beryl.sh

If Beryl Manager starts, then it works!

The special thing about this is that KDE automatically runs whatever it finds in that directory. So if you want to start other apps when KDE boots up as well, then just add the respective commands to your .sh file. For example, I have Mozilla Thunderbird in there, so every time I boot up, I can check my email with fewer clicks. :)