Lately Beryl has been running very sluggishly for me. Who knows why. It also tends to freeze up intermittently. I just turned it off entirely. The wobblies and zoomings get a bit tiring after a while anyways. God help anyone with motion sickness who tries to use it.
Good […]

Haven’t posted one in a while. Gnome + Beryl, Buuf icons, MurrinaNeoGraphite GTK theme. I caught a window in mid-closing-animation, but I thought it looked neat so I left it.

The latest version of Beryl, or whatever version I just installed (0.1.2 I think) has new effects (new to me anyways). One is Beam Up and the other is Burn. Beam Up is like a Star Trek transporter effect. Burn is a flame animation, but if you set it to random colors […]

Good:

Installing Beryl was brain-dead easy: add a repository and `apt-get install beryl`. About the same as Gentoo I guess, where you’d `layman -S whatever-the-repo-name-is` and then `emerge beryl`. Except Ubuntu didn’t take 30 minutes to install it, and it was nice and tested and likely to work. I’m using the Emerald theme […]

As 73 other blogs already mentioned, you don’t need XGL to run Beryl any longer if you use the beta nvidia-drivers in Portage (which are currently quite masked). This is pretty nice because the last version of XGL that worked for me was from July. I’ve had to mask every one since then. […]

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 […]

A new screenshot:

This is KDE/Xgl/Compiz with a Milkish sort of cgwd theme. Just enough transparency to make things interesting. Of course Compiz is best when you see it in action.
The wallpaper from Interfacelift. Such a nice wallpaper.

There are plenty of nice Compiz themes at compiz.net. Here’s Milk, which I’ve always liked. KDE + Compiz is just too nice:

Since taking these screenshots, I’ve started using dual monitors. There’s a good FAQ on the Gentoo Wiki about setting up TwinView. It honestly couldn’t be easier. I don’t […]