Re: Beryl anyone?

A couple people were working on this at the meeting last night. One
machine had just enough video power to run Beryl. Unfortunately the
transparent cube effect slowed things down a bit so we turned it off.

I ran Beryl for few days just to play with it. The version we played
with last night didn't look anything like the Beryl I was using. All the
settings were in different places. They must be doing a lot of work on
Beryl.

This was done on Ubuntu Mint. I don't know anything about this off shoot
of Ubuntu. Maybe Jonathan can post something about it. He keeps telling
me I should switch. Sure!

According to Jonathan Feisty Fawn won't have Beryl. I guess the Ubuntu
team took it out at one point. If they don't include it I'm sure some
third party will create a package for it. It's way to cool not to have.

With all the eye candy I'm kind of curious how anyone is able to get
work done. You could spend a couple of days playing with the settings.
You also need to practice rotating the cube, throwing your windows
around and making it rain on your desktop. Then there's all those You
Tube videos that need to be watched from the back side. The fun just
keeps going and going....

WARNING! PARTS OF YOUR DESKTOP MAY KETCH FIRE.

adamb@glaven.org wrote:
> Heh. Welcome to October and December, '06 ;)
>
> http://consortiumlibrary.org/aklug/archive/2006-10/0056.html
> http://consortiumlibrary.org/aklug/archive/2006-12/0029.html
>
> Beryl works very well, although getting drivers loaded and working CAN be
> a pain. I'm not using it anymore, simply because any time a serious
> update happens on my ubuntu boxes (with debian-etch vserver kernel) I
> have to run the whole installer for nvidia again. Not fun. Other than
> that, rather stable. I used it at work for a few months, and at home for a
> few months until I started running vservers regularly.
>
> I ended up disabling a lot of the effects from Beryl at work because of
> the video card speed, but the expose' style window selector is awesome.
> (It unfortunately will not un-windowshade things... either that, or
> un-minimize.)
>
> The Best part: You no longer need Xsnow! It has a built-in snow-program
> with makes it snow (in 3d!) on your desktop. If only I could hook it up
> with the weather applet I have to report the actual weather. Rain on my
> desktop when it's raining, snow when it's snowing.
>
> Dee, it's worth the time to get it fully tweaked. Productivity rose a bit
> when I ran beryl (once I stopped abusing the effects) because I was able
> to switch windows and workspaces a bit better. The 'desktop cube' helps me
> visualize the desktops in my head a bit better (and therefore keep track a
> bit easier.) It is really easy to 'lose' windows though, when you make
> them translucent, and then forget they are there, or where in the mess of
> windows they are located. I *do* enjoy watching translucent movies while
> fiddling with my computer, though.
>
> Adam
>
>
>> Here's something I was looking at today. Beryl
>> http://lhansen.blogspot.com/2006/10/3d-desktop-beryl-and-xgl-on-ubuntu-edgy.html
>> Nothing like eye candy.
>>
>> -Dee
>>
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Received on Sat Feb 17 13:15:51 2007