Can't use the beryl window manager

ok I finally got beryl to install without dumping Ubuntu, this has been a long process. now that I have neryl installed I can not use the winidow manager it just defaults to gnome. Maybe I am to new at this and maybe I just don't know how to use beryl,I have recently dumped xp and running pure Ubuntu, any help with this would be appreciated

I can not use the winidow manager it just defaults to gnome

By this you mean that you can't use the effects?

If so, then try running this in a terminal

$beryl-manager

andy@andy-laptop:~$ $beryl-manager bash: -manager: command not found

when I try the command without the $ then it just opens up the same menu I see when I right click on the beryl icon

any ideas whats wrong if anything?

Try running:

$beryl

and see if there are errors.

Also did you installed it with glx or aiglx?

If you installed with glx i suppose you created a glx session, if you didn't logged in using that session, log out and select glx in the session menu the log in again.

andy@andy-laptop:~$ beryl **************************************************************

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• Beryl system compatiblity check *

Detected xserver : AIGLX

Checking Display :0.0 ...

Checking for XComposite extension : passed (v0.3) Checking for XDamage extension : passed Checking for RandR extension : passed Checking for XSync extension : passed

Checking Screen 0 ...

libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig : passed Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap : passed Checking for non power of two texture support : passed Checking maximum texture size : failed

Root window size (1400/1050) is bigger then maximum texture size (1024x1024)

X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 4 (X_GLXDestroyContext) Serial number of failed request: 38 Current serial number in output stream: 40

I will log myself out and select GLX and see if that works, thanks for the quick response!

ok how do I get GLX?

which guide did you followed to install beryl?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1547638&postcount=7

When I am at my log in screen all I have for session options are...

Last Session Default session Gnome Failsafe Gnome Failsafe Terminal

what do I need to do?

do I need to specify "FGLRX" in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common?

Thanks for your help I can't believe how much of a bone head I am , once I adjusted my resolution down to 0124x768 all is well. thanks again for putting up with me.:guitar: