Hmm interesting, not something I have noticed here. If anything memory consumption aside I'd say my machine actually performs better not worse. Particularly I have not noticed anything wrong with scrolling. I wonder if your packages have the blur plugin enabled by default ? It's the only thing I can think of that would cause problems with scrolling performance.
No blurring - but my machine has long been on the lower-end of the performance scale. :) I believe it may also be something to do with Firefox in particular. I've read a few forum posts with similar issues - it's not all that bad, and Firefox was never amazingly smooth anyway so I can live with it.
Not something I can help you with I am afraid, on gnome here.
As I've been looking at it today, it actually seems to have disappeared completely for now - no idea if that's permanent. I hope not ... ;)
Depending again on which plugins your packages come with you should find a snapping windows control under window management in the beryl settings manager. However be aware that incorrect settings here play havoc with wobbly windows (which I have disabled anyway because they make me feel "funny")
yeah, I did enable the snap-on as default option within the wobbly windows plugin, but I never noticed the difference - it still didn't seem to snap ... I can't enable Snapping Windows under Window Management whilst Wobbly Windows is on, tho.
I am sure there are answers to your specific problems, one thing about beryl is that there are plenty of options to play with :-)
well, after posting this morning, I did some more messing about and worked out how to slow-down the rotation of the cube, which I actually prefer to the fast but jerky default speed on my machine. Adding the 3D Effects was a nice addition, when I messed with the timing again. Also added to my list of keys to memorise, is the Annotate (graffiti!) plugin. Incredibly entertaining to draw stick men when stuck on a boring call. :)
Some genuinely useful features (like the ones you mention, plus the tile modes, trail focus, full screen apps that can be bent out of the way, various ways to keep apps persistent across workspaces etc etc) are really starting to come on now. Even if the default visual effects are a bit too much in some cases.
Right - so far, I haven't spent much time on exploring it so I haven't actually tried a lot of the ones you've mentioned ... It's find to hard descriptions for a lot of them, and the Beryl Settings Manager I have never seems to quite tie up with the one described in the wiki (I have no Snow plugin for example).
Anyway, I'll try out some of your other suggestions when I get some time to play.
Peter.