Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:16:07 -0700 From: Rudy Rucker <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: emerald seems to crash... and HOW-TO set up beryl Message-ID: <46DCEA17.2060006@monkeybrains.net>
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There are several things that seem to crash emerald. I use this
'wrapper' to launch emerald and it works great.
Specifically, "System->Preferences->Theme" crashes emerald on my
system. Several other things cause it to crash as well.
This wrapper will automatically restart emerald for you.
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/usr/local/bin/emerald-wrapper
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#!/bin/sh
PIDFILE=/tmp/emerald-wrapper.pid
case "$1" in
start)
echo $$ > $PIDFILE
/usr/local/bin/emerald ;
sleep 4;
logger "Restarting emerald."
$0 start &
;;
stop)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
if [ $PID -gt 10 ]; then
logger "Killing emerald-wrapper: $PID"
kill $PID 2> /dev/null
rm $PIDFILE
fi
fi
killall emerald
;;
*)
echo ""
echo "Usage: `basename $0` { start | stop }"
echo ""
exit 64
;;
esac
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Also, it took me a while to figure out how to set up beryl & emerald on my
desktop. Here is my ~/.xinitrc:
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beryl &
/usr/local/bin/emerald-wrapper start &
sleep 2
gnome-session
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Replace gnome-session with startxfce4 or whatever it is you use :)
Also, if emerald doesn't crash for you, then you can replace the
/usr/local/bin/emerald-wrapper start &
line with simplily
emerald &
You know emerald has crashed when mid flight, all your windows lose
their frames.
- RUdy
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