Cannot choose Beryl as the windows manager

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Sat May 5 22:06:35 UTC 2007


On May 6 Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:

> On FC6, KDE, with the Radeon driver for my 256MB X1400 video card.
>
> When clicking on the Beryl icon, one is presented with the choice of
> window managers: Beryl, Metacity, or Kwin. I cannot select Beryl. When
> I do, the screen flickers as if it's starting, but then I get either
> Metacity or Kwin, whichever is set as the default. I do not know where
> to begin troubleshooting, and googling the problem has not found any
> other similar incidents. Where should I begin? Thanks.

As with any other gui software that's crashing/being unstable, run it from 
a command line and see what errors it spits out. It's quite helpful :)

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