blog.beryl-project.org — Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release 0.1, featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it?s release, many parts of beryl have been rewritten, replaced, or simply dropped. The Beryl team has put in numerous hours to bring you this release. It?s filled with fun, eye-candy...
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skidzillaMar 15, 2007
Try Sabayon.<a class="user" href="http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sabayon">http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sabayon</a>
rac3r5Mar 15, 2007
I know this this is not completely Beryl related but.. is there a similar windows equivalent? Even if there isn't, how about virtual desktops in windows? I know windows power tools has one, but I have never liked it. Anything else out there?
pabsterMar 15, 2007
@strabesI'm not trolling, just telling the truth. The OP made a jab at Vista as well.
brinknessMar 15, 2007
Beryl is one of the main reasons I stayed with linux after switching, back in November. It just makes doing tasks easier and more enjoyableIt is true that 80% of the features of Beryl don't actually help you do anything better or faster. Off the top of my head, window picker, desktop cube/wall, and the ring window switcher are really the only things I can think of that I'd feel crippled if I didn't have. However, there are intangible benefits to the extras. When an animation fires on a menu, or when a window goes transparent because I've selected a different window, it feels as if my computing actions actually mean something. There's a certain level of satisfaction you get when you get a visual representation of an action. I've got my Close Window action set to Explode (or whatever it's called)... when I close a window, there's a visual confirmation of what's happening, the window doesn't just disappear.My main beef with Beryl is the project maintenance. Ever since the 0.1.999 series, I (and a coworker) have consistenly had problems updating from the official repo. It's consistently broken. We've always had to go from the svn repo to get things working. Forum posts show many, many other people have similar problems. It always turned out to be a broken dependency or a package rename or packages not seeing that some things were deprecated -- all things that could have been resolved with attention to detail, in my mind. Further, when the Official repository remains in this broken state for WEEKS after the problems and solutions are discovered, it leaves one with less of a confident feeling.I really like Beryl, I really like that it's an active and frequently updated project, but I think the maintainers really need to work on their process before it's ready for wide acceptance.
ptfoeMar 15, 2007
Screw ATI users you have had enough time to know they don't give a f**k out Linux. Quit the bitching and get an nvidia card.
gavintlgoldMar 16, 2007
Nah, see all the features here were already in the Subversion beryl. That means that we've had all of them for about three weeks already. :P Any videos you want to see have already been posted, I believe.
ordminuteMar 16, 2007
I can understand wanting this for OS X myself. It really is starting to pale compared to Beryl. I should know, I have to work with OS X all day and look forward to coming home to a modern Linux deskop.
Closed AccountMar 20, 2007
@nick58b: Turning on the "copy" rendering path in advanced options doesn't fix the problem. When you do that, you are not running on the GPU but rather using software on your CPU. If you have a fast CPU, you may not notice the problem (other than your CPU utilization just jumped up). On slower machines, with GPUs that are more than fast enough, "copy" slows Beryl to the point where it's almost unusable.
ponosochegMay 12, 2007
Thanx a lot for the info. What an epatage!