Beryl/kde Autostart Script

Assembled from the Beryl wiki, modified and tested on 10.1, KDE 3.5.4, Xorg 7.2 with nvidia 9625 beta.

Howto install Beryl 0.1 as a normal xsession option in the KDE login manager, assuming you are using KDE and kdm is your display manager (and you have successfully installed Beryl as above):

In /usr/share/xsessions create a text file called beryl.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Name=Beryl
Exec=/usr/bin/beryl.sh
Icon=
Type=Application


In /usr/bin create a text file called beryl.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/sh
#
# KDE with XGL startup script
#
beryl-manager &
sleep 10
startkde


Make beryl.sh executable (right click in konq>properties>permissions>is executable.

Disable your kde splash screen in kcontrol.

The above will place an option called "Beryl" in the session options of the KDE login manager.

To enable Beryl log out>end current session, select Beryl from the session options and then login. The script will start Beryl before kde so you should see a nice Beryl splash screen and KDE launched as though Beryl is the default dm.

Other tips:
Install the compiz desktop preview and pager applet if you want the kicker pager to work properly. Disable gui effects in the kcontrol>appearance & themes>style>effects tab. Use Beryl effects instead.

Have fun...

Assembled from the Beryl wiki, modified and tested on 10.1, KDE 3.5.4, Xorg 7.2 with nvidia 9625 beta.

Howto install Beryl 0.1 as a normal xsession option in the KDE login manager, assuming you are using KDE and kdm is your display manager (and you have successfully installed Beryl as above):

In /usr/share/xsessions create a text file called beryl.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Name=Beryl
Exec=/usr/bin/beryl.sh
Icon=
Type=Application
In /usr/bin create a text file called beryl.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/sh
#
# KDE with XGL startup script
#
beryl-manager &
sleep 10
startkde
Make beryl.sh executable (right click in konq>properties>permissions>is executable.

Disable your kde splash screen in kcontrol.

The above will place an option called "Beryl" in the session options of the KDE login manager.

To enable Beryl log out>end current session, select Beryl from the session options and then login. The script will start Beryl before kde so you should see a nice Beryl splash screen and KDE launched as though Beryl is the default dm.

Other tips:
Install the compiz desktop preview and pager applet if you want the kicker pager to work properly. Disable gui effects in the kcontrol>appearance & themes>style>effects tab. Use Beryl effects instead.

Have fun...
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I can confirm this works with 10.2 as well
Nice work

Thanks! I've been searching way to start beryl better than ~.kde/Autostart with symlink to beryl exec. That nearly always left old beryl running behind and after a while I got many beryl execs running behind so I used to start beryl by hand.

I changed sleep time to 5 so that loging is slightly faster, seams to work just fine.

I can confirm this works with 10.2 as well
Nice work
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i have openSUSE 10.2 and this method worked accept for one problem

i had to change

beryl-manager &

to

beryl-manager --no-force-window-manager &

in the beryl.sh file

then everything worked fine. thanks very much for script it help alot!