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Origin

Beryl is the project name for the Quinnstorm branch of Compiz, announced on 19 September 2006 after Quinnstorm and the development team, the leader of which was Eamonn Bell, decided that the fork had come too far from the original Compiz started by Novell (compiz-vanilla). After the Novell XGL/Compiz team (mostly David Reveman) refused the proposition to merge the Quinnstorm changes with compiz-vanilla, the decision was made to make a real differentiation.^[2][3][4] As of 20 October 2006, version 0.1.1 has been released into the original compiz-quinnstorm repositories and mirrors. On 15 March 2007, version 0.2.0 FINAL was officially released. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Beryl (window manager). ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Novell Inc. ... David Reveman is a software developer. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (75th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Differences

Notable differences between Compiz and Beryl as listed on the Beryl FAQ are the following:

• The window decorator, formerly known as cgwd, is now named emerald. Currently, a cgwd theme can be ported to emerald by changing the extension from .cgwd to .emerald.
• Uses flat file backend instead of gconf, almost no GNOME dependency.
  • Compiz now has a flat file backend with no gnome dependency.
• Has a large variety of extra plugins, and enhanced features in other plugins.
  • Most of these have been ported to the compiz-extra package^[5][6]
• It has three themeable decorators: Emerald, Heliodor, and Aquamarine.
• It has a theme manager called emerald-theme-manager.
• Made by a community at Beryl Project Forums.
  • Compiz is made by David Reveman and the community at Compiz forums

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Window decorators

"Wobbly Windows" makes windows move like gelatin

Screenshot showing Ubuntu with transparent "cube" plugin of Beryl with skydome

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• Emerald, the default window decorator and a continuation of cgwd, has its own theme format and supports effects like alpha transparency, a fork of Compiz's gtk-window-decorator.
• Heliodor, another fork of Compiz's gtk-window-decorator, supports Metacity themes.
• Aquamarine supports KWin themes.

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System Requirements

According to the Beryl FAQ, Beryl runs acceptably well on a GeForce 3/Intel i855/Radeon 7500, 256MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz processor. Version 7.1 of Xorg and a recent version of Mesa 3D is recommended. [1] FAQ is an abbreviation for Frequently Asked Question(s). The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. ... The GeForce3 (codenamed NV20) was NVIDIAs third-generation GeForce chip. ... The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, or GMA, is Intels current line of graphics processors (GPUs) built-in to various motherboard chipsets. ... ATI Radeon is a brand of graphics processing units (GPU) that has been manufactured by ATI Technologies since 2000 and the successor to their Rage line. ... The X.Org Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 (the XOrg Server) is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. ... Mesa 3D is an open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering 3-Dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. ...

Plugins

Included in the 0.1.4 release are the following plugins. As of the 0.1.4 release plugins are now sorted into groups. Also introduced in 0.1.4 is a new plugin configuration interface that is more intuitive. Not only are plugins now sorted into groups but the actual options for each plugin are also sorted more intuitively.

• General Options: Configure general core settings (Rendering options, basic window manager settings, etc.)
• Accessibility: Plugins that provide accessibility features
  • Input Enabled Zoom: Zoom accessibility tool with keyboard and mouse input capabilities
  • Negative: Can turn the whole screen or single windows negative
  • Opacify: Makes windows easily visible when mouse is hovering over them
  • Zoom Desktop: Older version of Input Enabled Zoom without the option for mouse or keyboard input
• Desktop: Plugins related to the desktop in general
  • Clone Output: Output clone handler
  • Desktop Cube: Represents multi-desktop workspaces as a cube
  • Desktop Plane: Represents multi-desktop workspaces as a flat plane
  • Rotate Cube: Adds ability to rotate the multi-desktop cube
  • Fade to Desktop: Hides all windows with a smooth fade
  • Show Desktop: Hides all windows through use of a hotkey
• Development: Plugins that are generally only useful for developers
  • Crash Handler: Launches a fall-back window manager if Beryl crashes
• Image Format: Plugins to providing support for loading and saving various image formats
  • PNG: PNG image loader
  • SVG: SVG image loader
  • JPEG: JPEG image loader
  • Text: Text based image loader
• Extras: Plugins with little utility
  • Annotate: Allows the user to draw on the screen
  • Benchmark: Simple performance measurement utility
  • Dbus: Allows effects to be controlled via dbus commands

Beryl using "Glass" windows borders.

• • Screenshot: Allows the user to take a screen shot
  • Snow: Turns your desktop into a blizzard
  • Splash: Shows a splash screen on startup
  • Water Effect: Creates rain on the screen and other water effects
  • Window Previews: Creates live previews of windows when the mouse hovers over their window list entry
• Visual Effects: Plugins to provide visual effects
  • 3D Effects: When rotating the desktop cube windows are stacked in 3D space representing their depth
  • Animations: Animates windows at different times (minimization, closing, opening, etc.)
  • Blur Effects: Blurring of transparent windows and motion blur effects
  • Fading Windows: Fades windows on creation and destruction
  • Trailfocus: Windows fade out based on inactivity
  • Window Decorations: Draws window borders
  • Wobbly Windows: Makes windows move like Jelly
• Window Management: Plugins that provide window management related functionality
  • Application Switcher: Similar to MS Windows alt-tab window switching
  • Group and Tab Windows: Enables logical grouping of windows into tabs with live previews
  • Move Window: Basic moving of window ability
  • Place Windows: Locates windows in an appropriate position when created
  • Put: Move windows around the screen and desktops through shortcut keys
  • Resize Window: Basic window resizing ability
  • Ring Window Switcher: Enables a wheel style window switcher through shortcut keys
  • Scale: Similar to the Expose window selector
  • Snapping Windows: Enables window snapping and edge resistance without the wobbly plugin
  • Set Window Attribs by Various Criteria: Allows setting attributes of windows permanently based on program name, window class or window title. (e.g.: c:konsole:80 on the "Window Opacity" control would set the opacity of all instances of Konsole to 80%)
  • Tile: Used to tile windows with keyboard shortcuts

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Releases

The first official release of the project (Version 0.1.0) along with Emerald and Beryl-manager came on 29 September 2006. The second 'stable' release (Version 0.2.0) came on 15 March 2007^[7], shortly followed by an almost identical Version 0.2.1, the only changes being to update licensing and where the source code was stored^[8]. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (75th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Beryl-Compiz Merge

As of March 30th, Beryl and Compiz have decided to merge their projects back into one^[9]. The Beryl forums are no longer active as the project is being shutdown in favor of the new merged project at OpenCompositing web site. The working name is "Composite Community", and the name most likely to be adopted by popular vote is Coral (see here); its main activity will be focused in installation, configuration and additional plugins to be added to the core functionalities of Compiz, which will be responsible of core and base plugins. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Beryl (window manager). ...

References and notes

1. ^ freedesktop.org. [compiz] Compiz and Beryl are Reuniting. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
2. ^ Compiz.net forums - "Announcing the Beryl Project". Retrieved on 2006-09-19.
3. ^ Compiz.net forums - Information on Beryl. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.
4. ^ Results of a Conference Call "Here is what David Reveman says on the subject."
5. ^ http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/
6. ^ http://go-compiz.org/index.php?title=Porting_Plugins
7. ^ Beryl 0.2.0 Release Announcement
8. ^ Beryl 0.2.1 Release Announcement
9. ^ Merge Announcement

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See also

• OpenGL
• Xgl
• VirtualGL
• AIGLX
• Kwin
• Yod'm 3D

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External links

• Beryl Project Website
• Beryl Wiki - Includes up-to-date installation instructions
• Beryl Project announcement
• Youtube video of Beryl installed on Sabayon