Beryl: White screen of death!!!

[BioGene]

Hey,

Ok so I installed Beryl with the newest nVidia drivers and everything was working fine. I coudl open up both nVidia settings and beryl manager, but when I go to terminal and run the command "beryl" I see the splashy screen that says Beryl version 0.9.5 and then after that everything goes white.

When I try to switch between the apps I can see them switch but I only see a white screen and I can not do anything at all. I can just see like black frames of screen when switching bt nothing more. other than its as if somehow my screen goes pure white, including bars at top and bottom. I do not knwo what is happening! Worst part is that I can not take a picture of my terminal if it has any errors cause I can not see it!

SO how can I fix this, please help me out, thanks!

[alireza_a]

I have the exact same problem. any reply is appreciated.

[igknighted]

try holding either ctrl, alt, or shift (I cant remember which at the moment) and scrolling the mouse wheel. Beryl has a setting to do this which is adjusted via the mouse wheel and one of those keys by default, so it might just be that.

[slimdog360]

Originally Posted by BioGene ...I see the splashy screen that says Beryl version 0.9.5...

Wow, where do I get that version. Mine only says ver 0.2

[obstriegel]

Hi,

The problem is in xgl. If you do a

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl=7.0.0.git.20060725-0ubuntu2

you get the older version and can use beryl.


Regards,
obstriegel

[satchelpig]

Code: sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl=7.0.0.git.20060725-0ubuntu2 you get the older version and can use beryl.

that didn't work for me,

[obstriegel]

You can also downgrade beryl, described in this thread .

Open synaptic package manager, search for beryl, press ctrl+e and select version 0.1.99.2 you have to do this for beryl, beryl-core, beryl-manager, beryl-plugins, beryl-plugins-data, beryl-settings, beryl-settings-binding, libberyldecoration0 and libberylsettings0

[satchelpig]

OK . . . that removes the updated version . . . how do you get the prior version?

[obstriegel]

I found the solutions and summed it up in a wiki:

infoconnect-wiki
There is a tutorial on how to downgrade beryl to the correct version.

Regards,
obstriegel

[Patrick-Ruff]

yeah all you have to do is install a version that was released 2 days ago.

good luck