What happened?

[Meatbag]

Stupidly i ran an update without paying much attention and it updated Beryl to 0.3.0 from 0.2.1 which was working fine...

I've searched everywhere for a solution to this, particularaly on Ubuntu forums as i'm using Feisty. Anyway, whenever i updated i found i wasn't able to go into the theme manager or Beryl settings through right clicking on the icon. I know this isn't much of a problem, but under window managers the only one listed is Beryl. If i turn off Beryl i have to run "metacity --replace" to get a window manager. I've tried eveything, downgrading to 2.1 and 2.0 and purging the installation & settings. None of this works, i always end up with the same options missing. Also yesterday i had some screen artifacts and wasn't able to click anything in Firefox and funnily enough when i turned off Beryl it was all good again...

As i said, it was working perfectly fine before the upgrade but no matter what i do, i can't get it back to normal.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as i'll be able to keep my hair then :D

[Meatbag]

Anybody have any ideas? :cry:

[Meatbag]

Oh i forgot to mention, Beryl is constantly using 37 - 45%cpu :?

[sabrewolf2006]

I think its in a separate package called beryl-manager

Do a search in synaptic for all packages with beryl in description and name - should be in there somewhere,
if its already installed, try running beryl-manager from the terminal.. if it works try re-adding it to your session

Hope this helps

Craig

[Meatbag]

Yeah sorry it's beryl-manager sucking up all my cpu...I think it's also the culprit for my other problem with the menus...

I've tried all versions, same result with all of em :|

[sabrewolf2006]

do a killall beryl-manager (or use gnome-system-monitor and type beryl in the processes table and kill it)
Try checking your session manager for duplicate entries..

Have you got several versions installed?
They should conflict with one another.. hmm
Uninstall them all (inlcuding configs) and then reinstall the one with the closest version to the beryl you're using

[Meatbag]

Yeah i've removed everything to do with Beryl. All versions. I've tried installing different versions of beryl manager and emerald etc...

I'm totally stumped...

Here's a screeny of my probs
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[ianni67]

Are you running beryl over Xgl? I experienced a similar problem before.
I my case, it was actually a problem related to the beryl-xgl binary. I had to download from a different repository a version of the beryl packages which works.

Also, try to be sure that _all_ beryl* and emerald* packages were removed before installing the new ones. Weird effect may come from older/newer packages interactions.

[Meatbag]

Nope i'm using Nvidia. Yeah everything has been removed and replaced with different versions...I'm thinking this is a feisty problem, considering switching distros...

[Meatbag]

Ok i think i'm getting somewhere now...

In synaptic it shows beryl and beryl core as dsfg git also libberylsettings and decoration...

All the other beryl packages show as Ubuntu, could they be conflicting?

[ianni67]

they probably do. did you check the version number? which reposotories are you currently using?

[Meatbag]

Just the default feisty repos...Those are the packages it downloads...

I would download the tarballs and try that way but everytime i try to install one part it always needs another for dependency. Do i need to extract them all together and make a .deb out of them?