[Jalview-discuss] Are there any Beryl users having problems with Jalview

[Jim Procter]

Thanks for this advice, Andrew. There have been a cluster of help 
requests concerning this, and nearly everyone was using either Ubuntu 
Feisty.

Andrew Perry wrote:
> My simple "workaround" is to use the beryl-manager program to switch 
> to a different window manager  (eg metacity) while I am running any 
> graphical Java apps. The switching seems reliable in my hands, just 
> right-click on the little gem icon in the taskbar and select the new 
> window manager. It also works fine even if you do it after you've 
> started the Java app. Of course, half the time I don't remember to 
> switch Beryl back on after I'm finished with Jalview, so I must not 
> miss the eye candy that much :)
This is always going to be the best approach. Messing around with 
alternate JVMs are a pain, although its easy to set up a specific script 
to launch a program in the alternate jvm. Its also easy to set a script 
to launch a nested Xserver for the program, but I'm not sure if 
drag'n'drop will still work then.
> I can't remember if beryl-manager runs at login in the default Ubuntu 
> setup, and I'm not sure what the case will be in Gutsy.
I've heard rumours that this will be the case - and wanted to check 
exactly what options we should be advising anyone to do when this bug 
occurs.

cheers right back at ya!
Jim