Beryl help

[jaipraveen]

I installed beyl in my system and ran the beryl-manager.I have the following problems and doubts...

Probs
1.How to select the themes from the Beryl manager.Although I tried double clicking,dragging it,I couldn apply the themes in my Desktop.

Doubts:
1.I do not have a seperate Graphics card.Is it possible to generate 3d desktop in linux?

[bigtomrodney]

If you are running on an intel on board graphics chip newer than the 855 series then you should be able to. What happens when you run beryl-manager in a terminal? Can you post back the messages you get? Also what window decorator are you using? Have you installed Emerald?

[jaipraveen]

When I run beryl-manager ,I do not get any error message.I get a red icon on my task bar.What I tried was , I selected a theme from the Theme manager,but it fails to load.I am not sure about my motherboard.
I do not have Emerald- decorator.May be I will be try installing it and post you a message! Till then , Happy Linuxing and Thanks.

[jaipraveen]

When I run emerald from terminal,my screen resolution changes and my system virtually hangs and forces me to reboot.
Same in the case of beryl-manager ,when i run it from terminal , the screen resolution changes,linux logs off and then the boot-screen appears asking for user-name and password.

What may be the problem?

**Can someone suggest a software which can make my desktop transparent and nice.

[bigtomrodney]

Okay this time try to log in and don't start beryl-manager, instead open a terminal like konsole or gnome-terminal and run

beryl --replace

and post back the results. What distro are you using? Do you know if you are using XGL or AIGLX?

[jaipraveen]

When i executed beryl --replace from terminal, my system goes back to the login screen and all the wnidows which were open vanished.. Here are the post results,,, I tried it by forcing it into a file using input/ouput redirection command . beryl --replace >> cat.Otherwise it would not have been possible!

************************************************** ************
* Beryl system compatiblity check *
************************************************** ************

Detected xserver : AIGLX

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension : passed (v0.3)
Checking for XDamage extension : passed
Checking for RandR extension : passed
Checking for XSync extension : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig : passed
Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap : passed
Checking for non power of two texture support : passed
Checking maximum texture size : passed (2048x204

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Pls help me out to get some good softwares to make my linux desktop transparent.

[jaipraveen]

i use fc 6

[revlater]

If I'm not mistaken, after installing Beryl, it doesnt automatically switch Window Managers.. Try right clicking on the emerald in your system tray, and select Window Manager, change it to Beryl... You may also want to put a check mark on Launch Fall-Back window manager if beryl crashes.. Thats also found by right clicking on the Emerald in your system tray..