I am running Fedora 7 on a Acer 64 bit laptop. It actually works. However, when I start beryl, it draws a full screen sized grey rectangle and does not let me work. If , while in this grey screen, I press Alt-Tab, I see the tab switcher, which I think works, but all windows are covered with grey. If I start beryl from terminal, I can press Contrrol-C, and this kills beryl and returns me to my regular scrween (without gnome-wm, which I need to restart). Any ideas? i

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] Ignoramus8571 staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I am running Fedora 7 on a Acer 64 bit laptop. It actually works. > However, when I start beryl, it draws a full screen sized grey > rectangle and does not let me work. If , while in this grey screen, I > press Alt-Tab, I see the tab switcher, which I think works, but all > windows are covered with grey. If I start beryl from terminal, I can > press ^C, and this kills beryl and returns me to my regular screen > (without gnome-wm, which I need to restart). Any ideas? Beryl? That project's done and the new development is happening in compiz-fusion. There are a lot of things that could be going wrong here, and you haven't provided enough information to do a diagnosis. Which graphics card is in this machine? Which X module are you using? Are you using regular X, or XGL? What does "glxinfo | head" say? How was beryl started? What are the environment variables it's using? What internal settings is beryl using? Also, the only point of beryl/compiz-fusion is eye candy. If you need stability, *don't run it*, because it's still pretty beta. Even the Gentoo compiz-fusion ebuilds from the xeffects overlay have some glitches, so I can only imagine how much worse Fedora packages are. -- Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see