http://www.beryl-project.org/themes.php
looks good . . .
Wot no Beryl? Is this a window manager?
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Wot no Beryl? Is this a window manager?
Last edited by Lobster on Wed 15 Nov 2006, 03:27, edited 1 time in total.
Yes, a windowmanager.
It requires a special version of Xorg with integrated special OpenGL.
It is a file XGL I think, that is run instead of the xorg-binary.
Xorg 7.1 already includes that, Puppy currently uses 7.0, so does not have it.
I had a quick look by extracting slackware-packages of beryl some weeks ago, but could not get it running.
It is a windowmanager, that supports the new extensions of Xorg, for nice (3D)-effects.
http://www.pro-linux.de/NB2/images/indiv/k_beryl.jpg
While 3D-effects are imho not usefull for everyday-usage, only to play around with, also some helpfull things are possible.
So you can have a grafical taskswitch, that displays mini-screenshots of all windows.
With the new extension, that works very fast.
I once released "expose-clone" in the forum, that does something similar.
Expose runs a bit slow, if no composite-extension is active, as it has to raise each window before taking a screenshot.
If composite is active by running xcompmgr, it is very fast, as the content of the window is held in a buffer.
Beryl also supports glowing buttons to minimize/close a window.
Like some Icewm-themes, that have a mouse-over effect, when the button looks different, when you move the mouse over it.
With Beryl, this looks even more impressing, as an additional light-effect (a corona) is added.
Can't find the screenshot I liked so much at moment.
I think Pakt has run Xorg 7.1 already in Puppy for tests, but I don't know, if he compiled it himself.
More info:
http://forum.beryl-project.org/
german article:
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2006/10295.html
At moment I stopped my tests, as I'm busy with Muppy and some other things.
Mark
It requires a special version of Xorg with integrated special OpenGL.
It is a file XGL I think, that is run instead of the xorg-binary.
Xorg 7.1 already includes that, Puppy currently uses 7.0, so does not have it.
I had a quick look by extracting slackware-packages of beryl some weeks ago, but could not get it running.
It is a windowmanager, that supports the new extensions of Xorg, for nice (3D)-effects.
http://www.pro-linux.de/NB2/images/indiv/k_beryl.jpg
While 3D-effects are imho not usefull for everyday-usage, only to play around with, also some helpfull things are possible.
So you can have a grafical taskswitch, that displays mini-screenshots of all windows.
With the new extension, that works very fast.
I once released "expose-clone" in the forum, that does something similar.
Expose runs a bit slow, if no composite-extension is active, as it has to raise each window before taking a screenshot.
If composite is active by running xcompmgr, it is very fast, as the content of the window is held in a buffer.
Beryl also supports glowing buttons to minimize/close a window.
Like some Icewm-themes, that have a mouse-over effect, when the button looks different, when you move the mouse over it.
With Beryl, this looks even more impressing, as an additional light-effect (a corona) is added.
Can't find the screenshot I liked so much at moment.
I think Pakt has run Xorg 7.1 already in Puppy for tests, but I don't know, if he compiled it himself.
More info:
http://forum.beryl-project.org/
german article:
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2006/10295.html
At moment I stopped my tests, as I'm busy with Muppy and some other things.
Mark