Which one, the Beryl note? I will do it when I get home from work.

Cheers

Richard


On 25/04/07, Ben Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Speaking of Beryl, i've yet to play with it.  BUT, i've got about 1.5GBof RAM 
to through at it so I intend on hammering the H3LL out of it very
very soon.  Graphics card isn't too bad either so I'll see if I can break it
(quite literally) :).

In regards to Tomboy, this is something that I wish I come across long
before now.  Richard - can you post your Beryl note on the list here so I
can add that to my Tomboy note?  Would be greatful.

Cheers

Ben

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*Subject:* [Peterboro] talking about breaking things...Beryl


 While we are on the subject of breaking things, once you  have found the
sweet spot with Beryl, just leave the settings alone.

That's my tip.

I have yet to really pressure test Beryl but I suspect either of two
things has happened last night (which I fixed now):

either;

 A) playing about with Beryl for extended periods causes memory / cpu
leaks, and just grounds to a halt after a while,

or (and more likely the case)

B) if you fanny around with the settings like I did last night, beryl
throws a real tantrum and decides to not draw windows correctly or not
accept mouse clicks when you need them most.

I am still not 100 percent sure what caused the problems I had last night,
but they all seemed to start after i was showing Ed some settings.

My solution was to change window manager back to Metacity, right click on
the Beryl (red diamond thingy) then open beryl settings manager, turn off
all the fancy effects. then quit out of beryl-manager, reboot the computer,
and turn them back on again one by one.

I also think part of the problem is to do with the settings in System >
Pereferences > Desktop Effects, as me and Ed discovered, they seem to
unclear as to whether they are active or not, but one of the settings really
screws Beryl up royally. I *think* I turned them OFF to fix it, but not 100
percent sure. They could have been off already. The button is confusing.

So the moral of the story is - if you turn to the person next to you and
say "Oh yes, and whatever you do, dont do this - if you click this, it
crashes" (and then actually click it), it probably will ...actually
....um....crash...ahem.

:-)


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