Beryl is a composite window system project which began as a fork of the Compiz code base designed to allow for a more community involved Xgl window system project than the Novell run Compiz project. Beryl joined Compiz-Fusion together with Compiz Extras in 2007. The first release of Compiz Fusion was in mid-2007.
See Compiz-Fusion for current information on Beryl and Compiz-Extras.
Fork from Compiz
The initial developer focused (unstable) release, 0.1.0 was forked from the compiz-quinnstorm branch and released on September 28, 2006. This release can run on Xgl or AIGLX.
Beryl can be run side by side with Compiz – and effects development for the 2 projects is intended to be roughly similar.
The reason for the fork was communication problems between the Compiz insider developer community at Novell and the community of users on the compiz mailing list. Patches submitted to compiz were not felt to be applied in a desired way, so in the summer of 2006, work began on a development fork for community contributions.
See Also
- Skydome – Beryl’s background for switching desktops
