Compiz beryl windows

This tutorial shows how you can install and use Beryl or Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 7 desktop the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card.

With both Beryl and Compiz Fusion, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube. This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say that this is not the only way of setting up such a system.

There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I have used the Fedora Gnome desktop. If you use KDE, a few things might be different from this tutorial.

Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, but both projects are currently merging, and the new project has the name Compiz Fusion. What was Compiz Fusion? Compiz is an open-source software project, meaning anyone can use it freely and contribute. Get it Offer Compiz Fusion to your distribution. Use it Read more about Compiz Fusion features and how to use them.

Contribute Feel free to contribute code , translate Compiz Fusion or help out! Oh yea, I never post stupid ass replies to these posts but people just get on my nerves sometimes. Ubuntu installed super easily, minor user prompting required. Not having to compile your own kernel, tried Mandrake a long while ago, scary having a nice GUI set n ready to go, and all the aps readily available to choose from.

Yeah, open source for the win. I really like Linux. But I end up using windows all the time. My linux now has all eyecandy. But I am really missing a powerful email program, like theBat! I love the way the moderate guy ends up getting bashed by both sides in these debates. Except Im a gamer and a 3d and video editing hobbiest — oh and I also tinker with audio a lot.

Oh and when I started trying to do some slightly trickier things with the Audio it turned out that linux audio is an utter nightmare with at least 4 different audio device management systems in different stages of development or being phased out vying for control of your sound card.

Sure, you could stick with linux, or you could just bite the bullet and buy something that requires no painstaking installations, errors, reinstallations, formatting, or anything of the like. Honestly, how many girls are you getting by showing off how many desktops you can use at once or how zoomed in you can get into a window? No problems on either desktop.

No error messages. No crashes. No reinstallations. No formatting. No viruses. No spyware. No malware. Nothing of the like. Until then, have fun playing checkers! I must admit I was sucked in by the eye candy and all that. I installed Sabayon, absolutely brilliant! Emerge word! But thats where it all stopped. I tried using wine, cedega, crossover and none of them could run Maya.

Ah I missed it. I never knew installing software could be so esoteric. Concerning my computer. I have an ok P4 2. But for now… Next next next finish. My only reason for not wanting Compiz on windows is that it would prevent people from trying out some recent Linux distros. I know beryl brought me back to linux. My last swing at linux was back with the first iteration of the fedora project.

I went back to windows, emberassingly enough, for counterstrike. There not so many people who like slow and noise PCs… as i do. So i like windows 7. Linux derives nothing from mac…though I wish to god they would open up their desktop manager, developers could have that running on top of Xserver in linux in no time with a little code…. My guess is because I have a very powerful machine ruining it. I can use Photoshop and Office applications without any lag or trouble on my vista.

I have been told that Linux makes one hell of a server! Hey all i just wanted to add that if you have raid and you want to go to Linux it is pure hell!!!

I tried all new distros many threads and live help. I thought i would love the stability of Linux, well of course its stable when there is hardly anything that can be installed. I really wanted to be win free, and was going to take my laptop and desktop to Sabayon. My desktop is running it now. Which is great if i could just install whatever I wanted on it. BTW it is no straight forward thing getting a newer ATI card installed, I was looking to ass another for crossfire, but what good would that do me on Linux.

Great Linux has old ass Doom 3. I think Stue said it best: Target audience? Professional computer techs and people with way too much time on their hands. That is me and as of now I find that Linux is good for old systems and Laptops.

I would hesitate to put this on an old machine for word processing on the go. Maybe in another two years Linux will be ready. But by then a new windows will be pushing everyone away. Linux is targeted at everyone but 2 groups: 1. People working with propriety editing software with no open source equivilant If you will take look, there are plugins for GIMP, just like in photoshop, including photoshop file loaders, as far as 3Ds, the switch is kind of weird, but Blender is just as powerful This includes most workplaces, but is changing quickly.

These tasks have the exact same software for linux Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution, countless others. These people can even install linux As stated above, its a next next next finish installation , where they would have trouble with Windows XP You need to know about partitions at least, as well as network settings if you want internet access, driver setup if you have any hardware that came out after your operating system….

Yes, there are at least 2, probably 3 or 4, or even more audio devices to work with for your sound card, OSS and ALSA being the most common, Pulse and Jack used less frequently. For software, check the package managers. I spent 3 minutes looking when I needed audio editing tools, and found Audacity, a very powerful tool that I had used in windows. Some businesses use Audacity because of its abilities in windows, and its even stronger in Linux when tied with the Pulse or Jack functionality, or even by itself.

Dont compare apples to oranges, when you pull the apple off the tree New system, like alienware or a Mac Pro , and have a 10 year old orange.

I have a brand new laptop purpose built for Vista. It had a spare hard drive I dont use I have an external so i now dual boot to Ubuntu 7. I have to say I was sucked in by the eye candy, but for some time now I have been running open source programs, and I felt it was time to migrate over to linux.

Both systems run pretty good, although Ubuntu is noticeably faster and hogs less resources. As for installing programs so far it has seemed quite straight forward, either apt-get, or the package manager work most of the time, and when it doesnt google has an answer at your fingertips.

Getting used to a new file management system is tricky, but the learning curve isnt any harder than people who go from windows to mac, or for that matter when you have been using XP for years and boot up Vista for the first time and try to get some basic tasks done. You people who say the Gimp is any kind of alternative are frankly nuts.

I learned image editing on the Gimp and used it primarily for four years before I was able to get photoshop, and I can say I havent looked back. When you work in an environment where there are standards, you have to use the standard software.

An entire industry isnt going to change what format they use because linux isnt compatible be it graphic design, architecture, ect. Unfortunatly open source equivilants wont ever cut it. Large companies wont trust it to be installed on their systems, and it wont ever run as smoothly as long established marketplace leaders. This is of course extremely unfortunate, because the crowd that linux is primed for such as me is unable to make a full switch because their jobs dont support it.

Either wine needs to be improved a lot the experience Ive had with it is bad glitchy graphics, when it works at all or some kind of major change needs to happen so linux can support these programs before I and most of the people who want to use linux will be able to fully switch.

This is nothing like compiz, but there is an MS virtual desktop manager that works well. It is distributed by Microsoft and there are some other cool toys available still not as good as linux, but there is something for windows. These are all for XP, but I know that some have been re-developed for Vista.

The most well-known thing about Compiz and Beryl is the cube. Essentially replacing virtual desktops for GNOME or making a single desktop 4 times larger than before, the Cube plugin is probably the core of most further plugins figure 3.

Lastly, a trigger some distributions use F12, others use a small screen area allows all windows to be arrayed in a mosaic on the desktop, allowing you to choose the new active window in a snap figure 4. The window switcher has a secondary mode, called ring mode figure 5 , that displays small captures of opened windows in a 3D carousel. Animations allow you to apply different effects to different actions made to a window: minimize like a genie getting back in its bottle figure 6 , or fold the window, fade it out several variants Funny at first, it gets really annoying really fast.

Blur effects are also available. Heavy in resources and pretty useless, I recommend you deactivate these. A very useful accessibility is the interactive zoom plugin: with it, you can instantly magnify a portion of the screen. Content stays editable. Another useful thing when, say, typing a document, is the ability to see in transparency what is under the window.

This is, for example, priceless when describing a full-screen image in a text editor without having to switch from one to the other all the time. Some extra plugins allow you to doodle on screen figure 8 , make a screen copy, give water effects, get a splash screen, window previews useful for minimized apps—see figure 6 and a benchmark.

The nicest thing added to Beryl compared with Compiz, is the Beryl manager—which allows you to change stuff such as operational modes for Beryl, what WM is in use, what window decorator is used, what plugins are active, and allows you to start the Emerald theme manager.

The Beryl manager allows you to do away completely with command lines such as compiz --replace and also allows a backup WM to be loaded if Beryl crashes this can be done through a plugin too.

It, moreover, dispenses you with configuring start-up scripts to engage 3D mode, as it will start with the latest WM active when it was shut down—starting Beryl-manager can thus start Beryl automatically too. Most if not all of these plugins have several options that are activated by triggers usually, key sequences, but also screen areas or timers that can be set up in Beryl Setting manager figure 9. While the two environments can be mixed and mashed to a great extend, due to Compiz having been developed primarily for use with GNOME, integration with KDE is a bit more troublesome.