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From: MCR
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu/Beryl Question
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grunge09 wrote:
> some people have found that if they click on the emerald icon and change the
> theme to METACITY, then play the game it works, and the FPS goes up.
>
> They also tend to open terminal up and run KILL BERYL-MANAGER.
>
> That was from Ubuntu's web forums.
>
> I found that with beryl I cound not play Quake4 or UT2004 with it running.
> So what I did since I only loaded BERYL-MANAGER when I wanted to mes around
> with it, was USE CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE to restart X Manager w/oi Beryl running and
> games were ok.
>
I am not sure about frame rate (as I havent found a commercial game that
works with Beryl active), but switching to Metacity is what I do, its a
bit harsh to kill Beryl just to play World Of Warcraft!
Thanks for the suggestions though
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