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    HOWTO install beryl on Ubuntu Feisty with nVidia graphics card on Inspiron

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Balistic, Jun 10, 2007.

  1. Balistic

    Balistic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all, well I finally got it to work, and I wrote a simple guide for newbies like myself (after having all the hard time reading the gebrish by the pro's).
    Anyway here is the guide . Hope that helps a little...
     
    Balistic, Jun 10, 2007
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    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    Thanks for sharing. I have one question. Compiz is very easily available after a default install. Why the move to beryl. I've read in a few places that compiz is more stable than beryl so I'm not sure what the advantage of switching is.
     
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    Balistic Notebook Enthusiast

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    First of all, you're right.
    Beryl is Beta, and should be treated as such.
    The only advantage of using beryl (which as far as I understand is based on compiz code anyway), is getting a little more eye-candy, and being able to use some more effects. Though I certainly agree that for most users compiz is enough eye-candy.
     
    Balistic, Jun 10, 2007
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  4. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    Compiz is also beta software (at the 0.5 release level I believe), just as Beryl is (it's at the 0.2 release level). Beryl is a fork of Compiz and really has a lot more options especially when combined with the Emerald window manager. Beryl and Compiz will be re-merging soon however.
     
    Paul, Jun 11, 2007
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    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    True, they are both beta. Both are unstable. Yet, whenever I've read about the relative stability of both, Beryl was usually considered more unstable.
     
    lemur, Jun 12, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    I've never gotten Compiz to do what I want it to do. I love Beryl because it's easily configurable and works well under KDE. I'll bet Compiz has a decent interface under Gnome, but it just doesn't have anything with Kubuntu from what I can tell.
     
    Pitabred, Jun 12, 2007
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    Pitabred or anyone else that can answer this... How do I enable beryl under KDE? I managed to get it to work in Gnome, but when I use KDE and I start beryl-manager nothing happens, all the windows etc. work with no effects. I also couldn't find the 'desktop effects' option in KDE. Help...
     
    mikledet, Jun 13, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    The little red beryl icon should start up in your system tray when you run beryl-manager... you have to right-click on it and select Beryl as your window manager, rather than the default KDE window manager.
     
    Pitabred, Jun 13, 2007
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