Beryl issue - no title bar on windows and can't start beryl

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Mon Nov 5 18:11:34 UTC 2007


Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I clicked on the beryl-manager icon to launch it. I selected beryl 
> window manager and the desktop froze. The keyboard would not function. 
> I had to restart the computer by pressing the power switch on CPU.
>
> Now when I can't launch beryl manager to switch back to another window 
> manager. When I try the desktop freezes. The blue color title bar is 
> missing on all windows. Therefore, I can't access the minimize, 
> maximize and close buttons. I can't resize any windows either. There 
> is no beryl-manager icon on the tray.
>
> How can I fix this problem? beryl-manager was working before. It has 
> been a long time since I used it. I don't know what happened to it now.

if you can get a terminal open:

$ metacity --replace &

Will fix the problem.

You can do this from the failsafe login if you have to.

Good Luck!





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