[cw-discuss] lockup in FC6 AMD64 [OT]

[Marco Benton]

Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Simon, please forgive my questions, but you seem to know a lot about 
> Beryl.
>
> Simon Roby wrote:
>> On 5/23/07, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew at pitonyak.org> wrote:
>>> I hope that they fix this because it is really pretty! I switched from
>>> KDE to GNome so that I could use it. I stopped using it because it is
>>> unstable. I would consider jumping back to KDE, but then my poor wife
>>> would need to deal with change; she does not like change. Well, she 
>>> does
>>> not like that kind of change. She keeps rearranging stuff and then I
>>> have no idea where it went. It would almost be like payback. Boy, I
>>> could get into a lot of trouble here.
>> Say that again? Beryl is not dependent on Gnome, it runs fine under
>> KDE. It's actually one of the reasons why it forked off Compiz.
>
> I had no idea. I was lead to believe that I could only have the pretty 
> desktop effects if I used Gnome.
>
> Question: Has Beryl always worked with both?
>
> Question: Am I the only person that needed to disable Desktop Effects 
> for stability?
>
> Question: Is the instability likely a problem with the video driver, 
> or with Beryl?
>
> I really like the desktop effects and am sad to disable them. I did 
> have other things cause lockups, but crossover was the most reliable 
> way to lock X.

<rant>
KDE with Beryl is hideous.  the desktop pager doesnt work like it 
should, there's a hack to get it to work but even that hack isnt stable.

i found sometimes VLC would not show a video...sometimes it would... 
Windows media Player had the same problem...  Beryl makes firefox run 
painfully slow!  same Java apps display a blank window... etc...  of 
course most things have work arounds... i still find it unusable!

disable Compiz/Beryl... everything works again...
</rant>

Beryl *IS* pretty... especially to show off to Windoze l-users.

but if you want to actually *do* work, disable Compiz/Beryl and 
everything will work as expected.