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Setting Up Beryl

by strikeforce — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM
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Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base. This will go through the steps of installing it.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

  • Fedora Core 6

Requirements

  1. You will need 3d video card that supports direct rendering and a driver which supports GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap.
  2. You will need to have Yum set up for the Fedora-Extras repository.  FC6 is by default set up this way.

Doing the Work

  1. Install Beryl for gnome:
    2. su -c 'yum install beryl-gnome'
    or for KDE:
    su -c 'yum install beryl-kde'
  2. To start you will need the Beryl Manager activated. This will activate it.
    3. System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Beryl Manager
  3. If you want Beryl to be activated on boot you will need to beryl to the startup programs list, this can be found in the following menu location: 
    4. System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions -> Startup Programs tab
    or (from the command line):
    gnome-session-properties
    Then add beryl-manager to the Startup programs.

Troubleshooting

How to test

  1. If beryl doesn't start correctly (the beryl splash screen doesn't appear when you log in), it may be necessary to remove or move a configuration file.  Enter this on a command line to do this:
    2. mv ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-session/rh/%gconf.xml ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-session/rh/original.%gconf.xml

Common problems and fixes

More Information


Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems; if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.

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