Beryl Window Manager Bypass

Posted on May 26, 2007 by nseidm1.
Categories: Beryl/Compiz.

For some reason compiz does not work on my system; I get the dreaded white screen of death. Beryl does work tho. One time I click the compiz window manager and got the white screen of death and had to do the following to rectify the situation:

I had to boot in recovery mode, and since beryl-manager was set as a session to boot on startup I had to remove beryl-manager

sudo apt-get remove beryl-manager

Then I re-booted normally. Then open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install beryl-manager

beryl-manager –no-force-window-manager

This will start beryl-manager, and put the diamond on your task bar, but not load the window manager. Then I simply selected metacity or beryl. Since beryl does was compiz does, but has more options, there is no reason for me to select compiz as the window manager.

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