New Linux / Beryl User

[Elliott]

OK, I have been beating my head against the wall for a couple of days now. I have done my searches and found the same thing repeated but nothing seems to work. I have several questions.

1. How do you know Emerald Theme is running?
2. How do you actually select a theme and make it active?
3. Is there a way to say ok, enough. Shut down beryl completely so I am just like a fresh boot?
4. I have a cube that rotates, but it is "full screen." Is there a setting I am missing that scales the entire cube to just part of my screen?
5. Yes, I too have the same problem with window decorations. I really want to check out the theme part of that equation before I do anything else. I have modified my xorg.conf as seen below:

[code:cc369]
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Thu Nov 9 17:55:59 PST 2006

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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Thanks for any help.

[Deciare]

1. How do you know Emerald Theme is running?
You don't. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/Deciare/emoticons/icon_sweatdrop.gif The current theme is always editable under the emerald-theme-manager->Theme Settings->Edit Themes tab, but the name of the current theme isn't shown anywhere in the graphical user interface.

If you meant to ask how to know whether emerald is running, try this on a command line:
[code:0eb7e]ps -few | grep -i emerald[/code:0eb7e]
and check whether there's an "emerald" or "emerald --replace" process running. If not, try either running [code:0eb7e]emerald --replace &[/code:0eb7e] on a console, or right-clicking on the beryl-manager tray icon and going to Select Window Decorator->Standard Beryl decorator (Emerald).


2. How do you actually select a theme and make it active?
Normally, simply clicking anywhere on the list of themes in emerald-theme-manager should activate the theme. You shouldn't have to restart emerald for your theme changes to apply, but if you do, run
[code:0eb7e]emerald --replace &[/code:0eb7e]
on a command line.

If that doesn't work either, you can force a theme to be you current theme by deleting the ~/.emerald/theme directory and copying the directory containing the theme you want to use (check under /usr/share/themes/emerald and ~/.emerald/themse), then renaming the copy of that directory to ~/.emerald/theme .


3. Is there a way to say ok, enough. Shut down beryl completely so I am just like a fresh boot?
Enter this into a command line:
[code:0eb7e]killall beryl-manager; killall aquamarine; killall emerald; killall heliodor; killall beryl; sleep 5; beryl-manager &[/code:0eb7e]
That will kill all Beryl-related processes, wait 5 seconds, then restart beryl-manager, which should automatically restart your chosen window manager and window decorator.


4. I have a cube that rotates, but it is "full screen." Is there a setting I am missing that scales the entire cube to just part of my screen?
Change the setting at beryl-settings->Desktop->Rotate Cube->Behaviour->General->Zoom to a value higher than 0. You may also consider checking the Zoom Before Rotate option on the same page.


5. Yes, I too have the same problem with window decorations. I really want to check out the theme part of that equation before I do anything else. I have modified my xorg.conf as seen below:
Your xorg.conf file looks right to me, but maybe I'm missing something. Is your Window Decoration plugin enabled (beryl-settings->Visual Effects->Window Decoration)?



To keep my responses bearably short, please separate unrelated questions into their own threads in the future. :lol: And it would be nice to use a more descriptive thread title, too. Something like "Cannot change themes in Emerald" or "Window borders will not show". Thanks.