I'm about this > < close from installing beryl as my default window manager. Some of it is eye candy / bling / whatever you want to call it but some of the newer features are useful and remember, it's still pretty much a proof of concept, to show the kind of stuff that's possible with a compositing window manager... The fact that the cube thing etc runs smoothly on my rubbish old laptop is amazing, seeing as mac hardware which effectively does similar eye candy stuff is so expensive and yeah, I do show mac users I know to impress them. Windows users too now that Vista has a bit of eye candy they think it's the bees knees...
And yeah, beryl is a weird name for a project cos it sounds like an old granny name... Heh.
--Simon
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Anyone using beryl? (http://www.beryl-project.org)
I saw a video of it in use on YouTube, looks really nice. I blew away Linux on my "fast" desktop in order to play games, although I managed to get most of my games running with the third-party ATI Radeon drivers, it would hang and stuff, but that's another story.
I run DSL on an old P3 so I'll not be installing beryl anytime soon! :)
Just wondered what others think of it?
Cheers.
-Mark