suspending beryl

howto suspend a laptop from beryl

Beryl is an openGL accelerated desktop technology that has taken the linux desktop to new levels of eyecandy and usability. Beryl is developing very fast, and the developers seem very responsive to user feedback. However one issue with Beryl that hasn't yet been resolved is resuming from a suspended laptop. While Beryl is running, the laptop will suspend just fine (assuming you've got suspend working in the first place), but won't resume from suspend at all.

However, you can work around this problem. By activating a non-Beryl window manager before you suspend your laptop, you should be able to resume properly from suspend. Fortunately, Beryl provides a feature which makes this process relatively simple and straightforward. Beryl allows you to choose which window manager to use from the beryl-manager system tray icon:

If you use kde, then you should be able to choose kwin as the window manager, and if you use gnome, you should be able to choose metacity. Choose whichever one is available, wait for it to activate, and then suspend your laptop. You should then be able to resume properly. Once resumed, go back to the Beryl system tray icon, and re-activate the Beryl window manager.

You can discuss this howto on the forums.