Future of "Desktop Effects" in Feisty?

Tony linux433 at comcast.net
Wed May 23 01:57:41 UTC 2007


Paul S wrote:
> Tony said the following on 05/22/2007 09:29 PM:
>   
>>  No lockups I'm on a laptop also a T60 Lenovo in fact I run beryl 8 or 
>> more hours a day with out problems but i will say it has some quirks you 
>> have to figure out when you configure some of the features also its very 
>> hard to get it to work with Gset-Kiba dock I gave up think its due to 
>> running an XGL session but haven't investigate further.
>>
>> The way i run is configure and then log in to a gnome-XGL session only 
>> then start beryl manager from the system Tools also you must revert to 
>> version 2.0 of beryl not the latest it wont work with ATI drivers or XGL.
>>     
>
> I tried copying just "beryl-xgl" from the beryl-core package from 
> beryl-project.org into /usr/bin.  Then, I used the rest of the beryl 
> from universe repository.  Since you report such good experience, I 
> think I'll try the whole beryl-project.org repository.  Maybe I'll get 
> lucky too.  Also, I'm running on kde, but that shouldn't matter.
>
> thanks,
>
>   
Think this one is more up to date..

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_beryl_ati_radeon




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