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Beryl - Forums & Community / Howto: Install XGL & Beryl on Dapper w/ nVidia using apt-get

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Beryl (comiz fork)

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Novell XGL Demo - Google Video

Oh wow, this is cool. I have heard about XGL but I've never seen it in action. Sweet.

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Beryl

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

External Links

Beryl Links

Compiz

Compiz is an OpenGL x window manager from Novell. Compiz is used with Xgl to provide GPU accelerated window manager effects such as cube desktop switching, transparency, and other fancy window effects, comparable to those seen in Windows Vista and Mac OSX.

Compiz integrates fully with desktop environments such as KDE or GNOME, replacing their default window managers.

Compiz Effects

  • Transparency, Selective Dimming, Virtual Desktop Rotating Cube, Window Edge Decoration, Fade Effects, Animated Minimize, Animated Window Switcher, Water Effects, Zoom Effects.

Links

  • See Xgl for information on installing Xgl on various linux distributions, a wide variety are supported.
  • Beryl is a community fork of the Compiz codebase
  • Compiz Fusion is an effort to re-integrate Beryl into Compiz.

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