Starting "beryl-manager" at login

[Steven Vollom]

John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Chris <kubuntu at eportel.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Thanks John for your efforts,
>> No the Beryl icon is not in the tray..and yet when I run it from command
>> it runs find. 
>>
>> There are no errors when starting Beryl from the command line. It works
>> fine. 
>>
>> John is the last line of the Autostart file "beryl.sh" suppose to be
>> "fi"?
>>     
>
> I remember having this problem when I first installed it.  Now, if I
> could just remember how I fixed it...
>
> Basically, the way it's supposed to work is beryl-kde.desktop gets
> read by KDM.  Here, it calls /usr/bin/startkde with $DESKTOP_SESSION
> environment variable set to beryl-kde.  In beryl.sh, we check whether
> this environment variable is set to this, and if yes, calls
> beryl-manager.
>
> What we now have to check is what $DESKTOP_SESSION is set to and whether
> beryl.sh is called at all.
>
> So, try this.
> In beryl.sh,
> below the #!/bin/sh (and above the if statement) add the following line
>
> echo $DESKTOP_SESSION >> /tmp/log
>
> Save the file, and log out and log back in.  A log file has been created
> in /tmp.  Look at the file and tell me what it says.
> It should say beryl-kde, but if it says something else, let me know.
>
> You can also try to see if beryl-manager is called at all by commenting
> out the if statements.  Add a # in the beginning of the if and fi line
>
>   
For a while, I have been trying to follow your problem solving.  I am a 
newbie that installed Beryl to my Kubuntu OS.  Originally I set the 
configuration yet I cannot remember the choices that I made at the time, 
so I can't help much.  But since installation, it has opened when I boot 
up in Beryl.  I just don't know what I did to cause that.  Nonetheless, 
trying to find out how it works, and playing with all the features to 
see what would happen, I lost the most unique feature, where it was like 
a cube that rotated as I chose the various sites that were on each 
side.  I liked that, but in playing around trying to understand Beryls 
function, I lost that feature and it has not returned.  Currently it is 
stable and has a wavy kind of look to the pages as they are moved 
around.  It is pleasant and interesting, however, I would like to get 
back the rotating cube.

I am writing mostly because I never entered anything using the Terminal 
when I downloaded the program using Adept Manager.  I installed from the 
Manager and it worked instantly on boot up.  I just thought you should 
know that, in case you have been trying to solve your problem from a 
direction that is not the usual cause of your problem.  I have a feeling 
that it may be just a mouse-click on a point of configuration in the 
GUI, I just am not smart enough to understand the terms used in 
identifying the features in the configuration portion of engaging the 
product.  I hope this helps and does not confuse.  My email address is 
stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net if you want to ask any questions that might a 
memory that might be helpful.  In any event good luck, it has been 
interesting.

Steven Vollom, fine-artist
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