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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Beryl > Compiz and it’s now in Ubuntu Universal

I really really like Beryl. I just installed it on my home Ubuntu desktop and all I can say is “WOW” (a real “wow”, not one of those Vista “wow”s). The beryl-manager makes it so easy to configure rather than the Compiz method of using gconf-editor. I also found it so easy to install now that it’s in Ubuntu Universal. Just do a “sudo apt-get install beryl beryl-manager” and that’s it - you’re ready to go. Start up bery-manager and you can configure anything you want. (at least that’s all it took with Feisty)

I’ve noticed Beryl has some of the more leading edge effects built in. The 3D cube makes what I already thought was 3D even better by popping overlapping windows up off the desktop background for a definite “WOW” effect. Then you have the rain, wiper, waves, etc. Anyway, you just have to check it out - it’s too easy not to. The coolest effect is when you set the Windows close event to make the window burn up in flames. It’s fantastic to just watch it over and over.