Beryl white screen of death

Hey there, long time no blog. Just some quick notes about some recent Ubuntu woes. All of a sudden I'd been getting a problem referred to as the "white screen of death," where the screen would go white right after the desktop appeared. For some reason I thought it was related to Compiz Fusion, but as it turns out it was a Beryl problem. I didn't need to have Beryl any more, so I uninstalled it, and the white screen of death disappeared. Whew.

Problem was, Compiz broke as a result of all my fiddling. The usual story with window decorations not appearing. I tried a bunch of things (including a script that is supposed to download the latest source and compile it; that didn't work at all), but finally got it going along with Compiz Fusion Icon, which is very convenient. I'll try to post the links later.

Later: OK, here is the link that describes how to just remove Beryl, which is how I fixed the white screen problem. And here is the latest howto I followed on getting compiz-fusion running. Interestingly they recommend using a repository from one of the compiz-fusion programmers and NOT the oft-recommended Trevino repository. All I know is that I did it and it worked (with the only snag that, for some reason, compiz is constantly showing up as having an update available.).