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Beryl 0.1.4 Released Dec 26, 2006 — We are happy today to announce the release of Beryl 0.1.4! This release signifies the fifth major developer release of Beryl and the beginning of Beryl’s freeze for our current stable target 0.2.0. The plugins you see in this are the plugins you will be playing with on 0.2.0, though some of them are bound to change and improve. Release notes are again not done (DBO is on an unscheduled vacation) but he’ll be getting those out shortly. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all, from everyone here at The Beryl Project.–The Beryl Team

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I Just want to say, I really needed some time to figure out some tiny problems with the update form Beryl 0.1.3. to 0.1.4, but finally I managed to get it working. But after some time of working with it, I recognized, that beryl crashes often without any reason if you aren’t root. It would be possible to start beryl as root, but if you were not logedin as root, there would be no window effects(my favorite feature, FIRE^^). After fixing a bit, I now have it working, but sometimes I need to restart it.

My old mirror was no longer available(sry, but I’ve already forgotten its address). I’m now using: deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main (There is no longer an main-amd64 repository, everything is merged into main)

You should install after an “sudo apt-get update” all packages found with “apt-cache search beryl” and “apt-cache search emerald“. You need the package “xgl-xserver” too.

Create a new XSession file with “sudo gedit /usr/share/xsessions/xgl.desktop” with:

[Desktop Entry]


Encoding=UTF-8


Name=Xgl


Exec=/usr/local/bin/startxgl.sh


Icon=


Type=Application

And then the script “sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/startxgl.sh“

#!/bin/sh

Xgl -fullscreen :1 -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer &

export DISPLAY=:1

sleep 4

exec gnome-session

Starting beryl directly after login caused some problem, so I start it by clicking on an Icon in the panel, which is helpful too, if beryl crashes, because on this way it’s very fast restarted.The Icon should be linked to the script “/usr/local/bin/startberyl.sh“:

beryl &

sleep 10

killall gnome-panel

sleep 5

emerald –replace &

If you are scared about the third line in the script, beryl sometime crashes the panel, by killing it, it will be restarted immediately by gnome. If your system is not as fast as mine, you should increase the values after the sleep commands.

Now we have a running(and sometimes crashing beryl), I hope the version 0.1.5 will be more stable, but when you know start beryl, you will recognize, that all graphics are missing, the problem is, that the png support is know in an plugin which need to be activated, you could do this in “beryl-settings” under plugins->png.

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