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Victory

I got beryl (i.e. compiz-quinnstorm) working. I had to do this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib
export DISPLAY=:1
beryl-manage

This thread was a life-saver. Now rather than the whole screen being white, I get nice unnecessarily bouncy window effects. Can't be beat. A lot of new stuff has been added since last I looked. The development speed on this project is rather shocking. Every time I look there's a new plugin or new feature that's been ganked from OS X or Vista. It's an exciting time to be a Linux user.

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4 Responses to “Victory”

  1. October 1st, 2006 at 11:29 pm
    Quoth Yams:

    sudo apt-get remove compiz (and its various other packages) and then sudo apt-get install beryl (and its various other packages) did it for me. :)

  2. October 2nd, 2006 at 12:01 am
    Quoth Brian:

    Too bad it requires you to forfeit your soul.

    “emerge beryl-core” did it for me. Other than the whole library mismatch thing.

  3. October 2nd, 2006 at 12:39 am
    Quoth Yams:

    Don't you want to rejoin us Ubuntu heathen?

  4. October 2nd, 2006 at 10:06 am
    Quoth Brian:

    I was actually considering it. Then I read that ubuntu's x86_64 support sucks. And I realized Gentoo works fine and runs everything I need it to, so there's no point in switching.

    If my Gentoo install ever has a catostrophic failure, I may consider switching. But if it hasn't broken given the amount of abuse I currently throw at it, chance are it's not going to any time soon.

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