Beryl

saffyre · 18 Nov 2006 at 19:32

Ive just discovered this excellent window manager replacement for linux. Its still in its early stages but ive been using it for a while now and it seems very stable. It is easily the best pc user interface i have used and it looks superb.

Its hard to describe, best to see it in action.

saffyre · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:52

I think you can install linux on a mac. As for integrating it with your current OS I don't think you could do that.

saffyre · 18 Nov 2006 at 21:55

Billy, do you know how to set a background when you are rotating 3d cube mode. I have currently just got the black background. It doesn't seem to be in the options page, I've seen other people who have customized their background.

saffyre · 18 Nov 2006 at 22:47

Ahh I have found it. They call it skydome. You can set the image in the filenames tab. Select the animate skydome setting, its sweet.

saffyre · 19 Nov 2006 at 11:58

I find it is actually a nice practical way to manage your windows. I love the way you can arrange all your windows in a grid and select which one you want.

saffyre · 20 Nov 2006 at 23:12

You should give it a go. Ive not used xp for weeks since i got this installed. Its so much better for desktop use.

saffyre · 22 Nov 2006 at 00:47

Also worth noting that its very customisable. You cant turn of all the effects and theres a fair few options for most of them. I have totally customised my GUI its sweet.

saffyre · 22 Nov 2006 at 12:55

Ive been struggling to enable AA with beryl and nvidia for a while but have now found a fix.

Make sure u disable fbo blur from blur settings. Force the anti aliasing settings in the nvidia control panel and then reload the beryl window manager. You should have a nicely AA cube.

Currently it doesnt hold for a reboot. But ill do some more reading into that.

Im running it with 8xAA and 8xAF with no slowdown.

Heres a small video I made of my desktop. Video is a bit laggy.

http://www.davidbarker333.plus.com/saffyreDesktop.avi

saffyre · 22 Nov 2006 at 20:28

* add

beryl
emerald

to gnome session startup programs. ( go to system , preferences , sessions and select the startup programs tab )

Your just setting beryl and emerald to start when you login. Im not sure metacity can use XGL for its output which may be why your getting kicked back. If you didnt do this to start with you may need to restore your xorg.conf and run though some steps again so you can get back into gnome and setup the start options.

saffyre · 23 Nov 2006 at 00:00

How are you finding it pork? I changed it a fair bit before i was happy.