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From: Whitt Madden <whittmadden@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:01:11
Message-Id: 28701ea60709131745n1ea6b87fi6394769d754fd2ee@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion by James Colby
1 have you looked at the wiki page on gentoo?
2 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_compiz-fusion
3
4 Your answer might be there.
5
6 On 9/14/07, James Colby <jcolby@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
7 >
8 > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0500, Whitt Madden wrote:
9 > > I will second Albert's message. I didn't unmerge Beryl, and unlike
10 > Albert I
11 > > did have some issues.
12 > >
13 > > On 9/13/07, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
14 > > >
15 > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote:
16 > > > > All -
17 > > > >
18 > > > > Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to
19 > > > > Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would
20 > > > > like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the
21 > Beryl
22 > > > > packages before I install Compiz-Fusion?
23 > > >
24 > > > I didn't unmerge Beryl first and it worked.
25 > > >
26 > > > Nevertheless, I would still recommend:
27 > > >
28 > > > $ emerge -C beryl
29 > > > $ emerge -va --depclean
30 > > > $ # install fusion
31 >
32 > Thanks, I used the above procedure and it compiled and runs well. The
33 > only complaint that I have is that I have no windows decorations unless
34 > I open up a shell and manually execute emerald &. Any ideas on how to
35 > get emerald to run on login? It seems to me like it should be started
36 > automatically.
37 >
38 > Thanks again for the help,
39 > James
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47 Whitt Madden