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Beryl 0.1.4 Released

releases.beryl-project.org — "Beryl 0.1.4 is released, including new art, a couple new plugins, and of course snow for the christmas season."

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  • jbus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22From the Beryl Team:

    "We are happy today to announce the release of Beryl 0.1.4! This release signifies the fifth major developer release of Beryl and the beginning of Beryl's freeze for our current stable target 0.2.0. The plugins you see in this are the plugins you will be playing with on 0.2.0, though some of them are bound to change and improve. Release notes are again not done (DBO is on an unscheduled vacation) but he'll be getting those out shortly. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all, from everyone here at The Beryl Project."

    --The Beryl Team

    For ubuntu users:
    The Ubuntu repos have been updated, please use

    deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org edgy main
    deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org feisty main

    Depending on your version of Ubuntu.
    • theotherme, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6no dapper update :-(
    • sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Don't expect precompiled development versions of software for old versions of distributions. I know dapper is LTS but beryl 1.4 is a dev release.
      You can compile it yourself or wait for someone else to do it.
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Did they fix the bug where i couldn't watch video or use any OpenGL application unless I was using the standard window manager? I know 0.1.2 didn't have this problem. I "upgraded" to 0.1.3 and got a nasty surprise when my videos wouldn't play while beryl was loaded.
    • thirdtenor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@theotherme

      try here http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/index.html
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Just did the update. Video playback still borked. No splash screen this time? Also, panoramic Skydome image doesn't load. Snow doesn't load. Water effects don't load.

      Hmm... Still very buggy.
    • muchaaa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@skyshock21

      Isn't the video playback borked just because you might use XGL instead of aiglx?
    • twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now if only it didn't mess up my nvidia tv out >.
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1@ muchaaa

      Nope, using AIGLX. Default install of Ubuntu Edgy w/ Xorg 7 (AIGLX integrated into Xorg). No XGL as I can't stand that hack-ish Novell nonsense.
    • wisam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@skyshock21
      Are you sure you've got the splashscreen plugin enabled.
      As with skydome images and snow, they both need png plugin enabled, which isn't by default.
      Video playback?
      try mplayer -vo x11 -zoom videfile.avi

      Beryl has been stable for a lot of us.
    • GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It's the way with projects at this stage though. Beryl really is in beta, maybe late beta but beta none the less. Of course in OSS beta is generally marked as 0.0.0.0.0.0.2.6.8 rather than 0.1.4 ;). I expect it should get marked as 1.0 by the time we kick the aliens off of planet Earth (the aliens of course haven't yet arrived which explains your confusion at this point).

      Really if you want a better guarantee of stability you should stick with Compiz. Beryl is more bleeding edge, you expect more things to go wrong. Don't forget that AIGLX/XGL can be considered to be still in development as well. Give it a year and it'll blow the opposition away. It will be far more stable in the end than anything offered by MS or Apple and already has more features and is more efficient.
    • Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No Dapper update, because Dapper is locked. Edgy is the current distro. Check ubuntu.com for details.
    • ilovenicotine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@GMorgan
      "Really if you want a better guarantee of stability you should stick with Compiz."

      I totally disagree. Compiz has given me more problems than any version of Beryl I've ever run.
      Beryl very well may be more "Bleeding Edge" but, for every computer I have run it on, it has been much more stable on the whole.
  • garbanzo, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1Beryllium Aluminum Silicate?
  • ravenofwinter, on 10/12/2007, -66/+4And I care about this because??
    • sacr3dc0w, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29you posted a comment?
    • Mythguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Why raise the ***** flag and post that you dont care. There are a million other threads and stories you can read and post on. Obviously the people that care outnumber you. Thus the reason it was dug 15 times in the time it took me to log in and reply to your retarded comment. Unless you just like the attention of being an ass hat.
    • Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28The scroll bar is to your right ----------------------------------------->

      If you're not interested, just keep it moving....
  • Spatulas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12They also reorganized the settings manager's list of plug-ins in a much more intuitive and less overwhelming way.
    • userundefine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20And that's much appreciated. It was really difficult to configure things before.

      For anyone who upgrades to use XGLsnow and you get nothing but white blocks, this is how to fix it:

      In the beryl settings manager, under Image Format enable PNG support. Then it will work like a charm. I just upgraded my version for this effect and had the white-blocks issue, so this is how I fixed it.
    • absolut1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
      Very nice hint.

      Thanks a lot.
    • msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now if only their help/information tabs had anything helpful or informative in them.

      Me: "What is Window Management->Window Grouper->Select?"
      *clicks help*
      Me: "Oh, of course, 'The key for starting selecting windows'!" (confused)
      *clicks enable*
      Me: "Hrmmm, my left mouse button no longer works like it should"

      A little bit of warning would be nice on some things, especially when the current method of figuring out beryl is to enable/disable until you get the desired effects.
  • MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7yep, prepare for "LINUX ROOOLZ" Beryl Effects Demonstation videos hitting youtube in 5....4.....3....2
  • jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6can someone tell me what beryl is? the website is very. . . non descriptive :D
  • 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i wish someone made a liveCD that ran this default.
    All my linux computers arent capable of running it, and all of my capable computers are filled with expensive proprietary OSes.

    Can anyone point me there?
  • Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3There could have been a little more description to tell the noobs what Beryl is.
    • tegulizard13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I know how you feel, I found out when all the compiz/xgl stuff hit the fan a while ago. I had seen something that I thought was xgl except that it had a transparent desktop cube. Only after looking for it did i find that it was in fact beryl.
    • pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Beryl is just a window manager that runs under Xgl/aiglx. The alternative is Compiz, which it forked from.
  • Mythguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5they do make a live CD that does this by default. I cant remember which one it is right now. There was a story about it a couple weeks ago. Damnit. Someone will post it here. There is one that does it by default on a live cd though. Sabyon does it. I knew I would remember it Sabyon has a live CD with it built in and working.

    To answer the other question. Beryl is an add on to the window manager in linux. It makes linux do all kinds of pretty things. The funny thing is that Vista is so proud of their aero, yet it cant do half these things and takes twice the resources to do it. What ass's they are over at microsoft.
  • 51mmz0rz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Until they make scale include minimized windows, I'm probably not going to be interested in Beryl for everyday use. It is a lot of fun though...
    • felderado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Scale DOES include minimized windows. In beryl-settings find Scale and checkbox "include minimized windows".

      Duh.
    • 51mmz0rz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nice, I didn't even check the options after upgrading from 0.1.1, just hit F9 and didn't see a change. I really don't mind that it leaves them maximized in the background either. Thanks for pointing it out. Now I just need to make scrolling fullscreen windows more responsive. I just don't think my card is up to snuff.
    • dick-richardson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It handles the Mobility 9000 in my laptop just ducky.
    • shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I just don't think my card is up to snuff."

      What kind of card do you have? It's almost definitely a driver problem because I run Beryl very smooth on my Intel 915 integrated video with 8 MB video RAM.
  • MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone have release notes?
  • sidney31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2for a really good discussion of beryl, AiGLX, and KDE check out the interview with KDE developer Zack Rusin on episode 167 of the linux link tech show. Also the last ten minutes of episode 163.
  • Anubis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know if the issue with intel i810 graphic's cards not being able to use water or snow effects has been corrected? I've been using beryl on my laptop ( 1/12 years old) and I cant find any information that helps me fix the problem.
    • SanjayM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Snow seems to work fine for me, but water is indeed borked, Intel 915, on i810 driver. It doesnt bother me awfully but it'd be nice to see it fixed.

      Sanjay.
    • EgoDemens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Water uses vertex or pixel shaders. I don't know about the Intel line but if it doesn't "just work" then I guess your card does not have support for them. Someone would need to rewrite the plug-in to use some other method. As for snow you need to enable png in the image format section.
    • wisam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Water effects work for me on Intel 915 with Texture from Pixmap rendering path
  • loell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what's the public key for the above repo?
  • ottaky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Anubis

    Snow is running for me on a 82865G using the i810 driver. Water is still borked. I'm using the packages from Open SuSE.
  • aGiit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i just installed the update, but it did not fix the biggest problem I'm having with beryl. for some reason, i cant use the right click menu on any of the programs, as the menu it self pops UNDER all the windows currently on, i only noticed this because i have transparent terminal, and when i right clicked i saw the menu pop up under the terminal, anyone know a fix to this?

    hmm should prolly take it to proper beryl/Xgl/ubuntu forums...
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