Comments on: Beryl 0.2.1 in Universe

By: Beryl en el repositorio universe de Ubuntu « -=|G®ëgö®y †|-|ë Þµñ¡§|-|ë®|=-

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:36:05 +0000

[...] Beryl en el repositorio universe de Ubuntu 13 04 2007 No se si será por el anuncio de ayer de que Beryl y Compiz volverán a unirse o por la versión 0.2.1 en la que arreglaban los problemas de licencias pero hoy propio Mark Shuttleworth anuncia que Beryl ya está en el repositorio universe de Ubuntu. Ahora la instalación es tan sencilla como activar universe en /etc/apt/sources.list y escribir sudo aptitude install beryl. [...]

By: Abbas Khan

Abbas Khan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:26:51 +0000

Actually you have to => sudo apt-get install beryl beryl-manager
because beryl does not depend on beryl-manager.

By: lyceum

lyceum — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:34:15 +0000

I just installed Beryl on my desktop for the first time. I have played with Compiz in the past and was happy, but Beryl just blew me away! I normally play with Compiz and turn it off, as it messed with production. Beryl and I got along just fine I can not wait to see it on a future Ubuntu Live CD so I can show potential Ubuntu users the easy way.

By: Dud

Dud — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:11:02 +0000

Found that beryl emerges nicely on gentoo on amd64 platform too .. for nvidia i had to run beryl-xgl instead of beryl, else it was very unstable. If you get beryl to crash with a black screen lockup or just getting a dead X server, try google-ing a bit, there’s some settings you have to do and checkboxes to uncheck re vertical blank etc on the beryl-manager. Now /we are off to play with MCE on ubuntu 6.10 .. time for some myth-tv in the house.

By: Nemes Ioan Sorin

Nemes Ioan Sorin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:56:16 +0000

Yes from some points of view ..will be a victory ( to have a stable Beryl until Feisty release on April, and if is stable ..maybe enabled by default ) .

But sadly - for my area of interest for Ubuntu promotion -> Local Administration / Public Services / Educational institutions - Beryl simply ..did not exist. They will like to see technologies like GLScube or ACL instead - to organize and protect documents better. They will not ask ever for 3D toys.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:01:37 +0000

How does this work on Kubuntu? I have installed according to Mark’s instructions and it pulled in 13 total packages, and Beryl Settings Manager appears in my KMenu>System and the Emerald Theme Manager appears in KMenu>Settings (why aren’t these together??) but running “beryl-manager” doesn’t work on its own. Additionally, nothing actually changes and I see no place to “Apply” changes.

Is a logout/login required for KDE? Do i have to change other settings at the command line somewhere?

I wish KDE got as much love as GNOME does from Ubuntu planners; am I wrong to feel like we get a lot of the default functionality of Ubuntu in the following Kubuntu release? (i.e., a feature appears in U6.06 and then in K6.10) Maybe I am wrong on that though. Still, I love the distro!

By: CL

CL — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:28:38 +0000

Dear Mark–

Nvidia has broken their drivers again into three different packages, two of them legacy and it includes my card. I can’t believe them. This is what Ubuntu gets for relying on proprietary drivers, and Feisty is so close to release. Ubuntu and Linux truly don’t deserve this kind of treatment from Nvidia.

Please do whatever you can to propel Nouveau forward because I was so excited to be able to use compiz and beryl with my GeForce Ti 4200 and now Nvidia screws that up.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87332 Thread at everyone’s favorite website (….not), NVNews
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html Legacy cards

By: McGivrer

McGivrer — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:12:06 +0000

Amazing, great job guys ! And thanks for the ubuntu community .
Feisty will kick far away other evil OS

By: John Mitchell

John Mitchell — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:21:40 +0000

Wow, this is going to be the best release of Ubuntu yet! This is the first time I have helped beta test a distro and I am amazed at all the cool stuff that has been added so far. Beryl adds that oooooh effect when I show off Ubuntu and I am super happy that it’s going to be easier to install from now on. Everyone that I show wants to try Ubuntu when they see Beryl do all sorts of tricks on my pc.

Thanks to those that did all the hard work to get Beryl in to the repos, you all rock!

By: Michael Dolan Dot Com » Beryl > Compiz and it’s now in Ubuntu Universal

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:08:41 +0000

[...] 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) [...]