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Beryl+Kubuntu
Is this possible? I would also like to be able to switch between KDE and Beryl so I always have the option of a more stable, less distracting interface. I've already googled beryl installation guides for the KDE environment without success. Can anyone help?
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This guide makes quite a few mentions of KDE, and doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge (thank God :D)
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When you install beryl, what happens is you start up this little "beryl-manager" applet that sits in the system tray. You can click on that, and switch between the basic KDE window manager, and the flashy beryl one, all without logging out or closing programs or anything. I actually also install "aquamarine", which lets you use the KDE window decorations in Beryl, so the two window managers look completely consistent, except the windows in Beryl shiver, the desktop is a transparent cube, and they burn up when I close them ;)
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I tried the commands in vespoli's link (thanks btw) for fetching the beryl packages, but it couldn't find the said packages. All of my adept manager repositories are enabled, so this problem is beyond me. :o Anyone have a solution?
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did you add the repositories that were in the tutorial?
the packages are in those repos, not the main (K)Ubuntu repos.
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Great; in all of my linux wisdom I tried adding an archive to my repositories and now adept will not open. How do I edit repositories without adept?
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bc135: sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
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OK Adept is working again but I still have to add the repositories. I'm using the ones listed in the tutorial:
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main
deb-src http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org edgy main
I tried adding these in the Konsole but I had trouble saving them so I opened the file sources.list with Kate. I added the lines as per the instructions and I tried to save it but received this error:
There are no adept applications open that I know of.
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That's why I said "sudo". You have to edit that file as root. A general user can't change it.
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Please bear with me on this part, b/c the rest of the tutorial seems simple enough; how do I save the sources.list file in the Konsole?