Comments on: How to Enable Desktop Effects and Install Beryl on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

By: Ubuntu – a tale of discovery and woe | David Millard

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By: Zeolar

Zeolar — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:52:35 +0000

It’s the first time I heart about desktop effects, and it’s amazing!

By: Hill

Hill — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:12 +0000

Hey!!! my desktop effects won’t work… only white sreen i seen… wat should i do to enable my desktop effects…? plz help me. thx

By: Ala Micu'

Ala Micu' — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:58:21 +0000

$ sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package beryl

Why it couldn’t find the package?

By: Tivo Premiere

Tivo Premiere — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:24:05 +0000

I was looking for dvr related articles, this was good – bookmarked your site!

By: fizice – the blog | Installing Beryl on Ubuntu

fizice – the blog | Installing Beryl on Ubuntu — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:12:37 +0000

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By: abdelaziz akharraz

abdelaziz akharraz — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:53:05 +0000

thank you very much for this good help.
and exuse me because i want to ask about how to install any programms on unbunto?

By: LOL

LOL — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:05:33 +0000

I don’t what I’ve done but it seems bad I done it all wrong and was mucking with the system files LOL.

By: noob

noob — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:07:18 +0000

When i try to install the Beryl manager, everything else is ok, but it ALWAYS says that the beryl manager package is not found.

By: Enthropy

Enthropy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:47:46 +0000

I’m not sure, but I think the newest version of XWin doesn’t even need a config file anymore. Pretty sure it autodetects everything. It may work without the modules section, or you may have to add it before the input devices. This is what mine looks like:

Section “Files”
RgbPath “/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1″
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi”
Fontpath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi”
Fontpath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc”
# path to defoma fonts
Fontpath “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “i2c”
Load “bitmap”
Load “ddc”
Load “extmod”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
Load “int10″
Load “type1″
Load “vbe”
EndSection

By: Monch Mercader

Monch Mercader — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:23:32 +0000

Hi There, Sorry for being such a newbie. I’m not used to Linux and Unix based OS. But I got the new Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy heron and I wanted to try out Beryl. I tried to follow your instructions but unfortunately when I got to the xorg.conf there was no module section. I’m using an MSI S260 laptop which has an onboard video card from intel-intel 915GM. I checked the specs on the Beryl Website and they said that Beryl’s min req is an Intel 855. So I know that I have more than enough. maybe yuo can help me out. Thanks.

BTW here’s a copy of my xorg.conf

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizEdgeScroll” “0″
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection

By: Enthropy

Enthropy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:20:39 +0000

Huskan, sometimes installing beryl doesn’t install beryl-manager. Should just be able to:

sudo apt-get install beryl-manager and it’ll start after that.

Dylan, can you be a bit more specific about what’s messed up? If it just lowered your screen resolution, you should be able to change it back in the system menu.

Ian, I’m not sure about parallels, but beryl sure didn’t like VMWare for me. It needs GLX and virtualization typically doesn’t do 3d acceleration very well. Check the max texture resolution of the virtual card. If your screen resolution is bigger than the max texture size it’ll do that. (Had a fight with a geforce4 card that was running dual monitor. Full desktop resolution was 2048×768 but the card’s max texture size was 2046×2046)

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:23:05 +0000

Did you edit your sources.conf list?

By: noooooooooooooooooob

noooooooooooooooooob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:20:55 +0000

Help!!!! It says when I type sudo apt-get install beryl emerald-themes that the packet beryl cannot be found!!!!!!!!!!!

By: bmud

bmud — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:05:53 +0000

So the first step is where I failed instantly. Desktop Effects isn’t in my menu. I’m running the 64 bit build of Ubuntu Studio… *lost*

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:56:40 +0000

This whole thing really messed up my computer. I just was trying too get the 3d cube, would do anything, this really messed it up though.

i installed the beryl and everything okay, but now i cant change back my screen resolution, everything is huge, and ridiculous. i have 7.10, and i would really like this fixed.

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:26:04 +0000

Huskan,

Check out this article: http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2794 That will walk you through enabling extra respositories (including the Universe repository).

Ben

By: Huskan

Huskan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:37:49 +0000

when i type beryl-manager in the terminal i get

Make sure you have the ‘universe’ component enabled
bash: beryl-manager: command not found

everything worked until this point.
what does this mean?

By: ian

ian — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:51:13 +0000

When I open The desktop effects thing, and enable it, my screen goes white and then returns and nothing changes. I am using parallels

By: Enthropy

Enthropy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0000

[quote]gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

it reports:
(gksudo : 27335): gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Can you help this poor defenseless newbie?[/quote]

try ‘sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf’
or ‘sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf’

Pico’s a bit of a pain, but oh well

By: Conrad’s Place » Blog Archive » Ubuntu with Beryl… words fail me

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:43:10 +0000

[...] that description just doesn’t do it justice though – you have to see it for yourself). I used this tutorial. It’s simply the best thing since sliced bread – Windows never looked so bland and mundane [...]

By: James N

James N — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:36:16 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial – the built-in Desktop Effects options didn’t work (they just displayed windows with no borders or titlebar or anything??). But now my Ubuntu looks like Vista with a bunch of stuff that Microsoft talked about implementing 2+ years ago!

Also, people, this tutorial works fine if you just FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Honestly I think a lot of the commenters on this page should have stuck with Windows.

By: airdevil

airdevil — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:17:02 +0000

Hey!!! my desktop effects won’t work… only white sreen i seen… wat should i do to enable my desktop effects…? plz help me. thx

By: CyberRas

CyberRas — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:56:23 +0000

I’ve gone though several of the guides on Ubuntu and CompizFusion and Beryl. I’ve tried all their suggestions, however, aftrer installing CompizFusion, and enabling the desktop my bars disappear. Also the effects do not work the way they should.

By: Zeca

Zeca — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:57:44 +0000

I’ve been using ubuntu 7 basicly for work purposes. I wanted to spice up the boring laptop with beryl but it gets stuck here (in root):

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

it reports:
(gksudo : 27335): gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Can you help this poor defenseless newbie?

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:05:05 +0000

Heya Henry,

Glad we could help.

By: henry

henry — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:59:22 +0000

wow.. thanks man.. nice site. i just followed.. i didn’t have to edit the xorg.. but it work

By: pat ambrosio

pat ambrosio — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:14:46 +0000

i just want to ask, whenever i enable desktop effects, the windows’ menu bars are disappearing, how can i fix that?

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:45:37 +0000

Enthropy,

Thanks for posting your fix and glad you found it!