About a half an hour ago I noticed in Synaptic that Beryl was upgradeable, so I went ahead and installed it, then forgot about it. A few minutes later I right-clicked on the Beryl Settings Manager icon to tweak something, and Beryl crashed and it loaded Metacity. I tried to put the window manager back to Beryl, but it didn't load and my windows had no borders. I quickly restarted X, but when it loaded Beryl was flickery and unresponsive, and my CPU usage was at 100%. I then uninstalled Beryl and all of its related packages, including XGL. I went over the how to I followed and reversed the process. I restarted X again, and X failed to start so I rebooted. Long story short, I am back to where I was before Beryl.
So where do you suggest I go from here? Metacity is lame, but XGL is not my favorite thing in the world. What about AIGLX? I don't really understand what half of this stuff is all about, I need some pointers.
Sorry for the rant-ish post, all of that probably wasn't necessary