Beryl+ Gnome means Beryl-KDE

snoze · #1 13th December 2006, 04:20 AM

Yes, I did fresh installtion of Beryl and found it is working fine with gnome but kde it sucks. It removed all my options from menu bar, i can't see anything in system and development. Instead it try to load gnome kind of menu application under kde. Good news about Beryl is the effects, I like the fire one... i can see my icons and terminal burning. What a gr8 application. This is true under gnome. But n KDE most of the time border is the issue. Under beryl borders are invisible but you can fix border using beryl as default. But Still beryl is full of bug if you are running it under KDE.
Good news guys now Beryl is available in fedore core extra

Dies · #2 13th December 2006, 04:39 AM

There's two separate packages:

beryl-gnome
beryl-kde

snoze · #3 13th December 2006, 04:44 AM

i know but Aquamarine in kde is a big mess.

rappermas · #4 13th December 2006, 05:45 AM

Beryl is so awesome for alpha software...

I mean, version 0.1.2--and it's so advanced.

snoze · #5 14th December 2006, 03:43 AM

I fix my desktop and now beryl is working fine for me. I can ue al action in beryl but how to get a stable picture like this... which I found in this site http://www.flickr.com/photos/archang...ael/297221134/

I am wondering is it possible to fix the cube in this angle. I can swing the cube and contol its speed using mouse key but how to fix cube in this angle...... any geek around who can fix this cube

Lindy · #6 14th December 2006, 05:37 PM

To get the groovy cool background image behind the cube you'll need to find an image you'd like to use, open it in Gimp and save it as a .png. Then open up the Beryl settings manager select desktop cube. On the Choices tab check the Skydome box, then click the filenames tab, in Skydome image browse to the .png image you made and select it. Also in the choices tab you can select transparent cube or inside cube.
My question is how do you get flames?

snoze · #7 14th December 2006, 09:00 PM

there is a flame option in beryl.. check general setting, i mean top one.. You can increase or decrease the fire option.. I have some idea of what you are suggesting here.. only my question

Is it possible to fix the cube position, as shown above picture? because after moving it around, it is again going to normal desktop postion. Only ripples are not working in my case.

I wan to fix cube in diagonal position. But so far i think we can not fix the cube in this position! what do u think?

JN4OldSchool · #8 14th December 2006, 09:12 PM

I'd like to fix cube in diagonal position too. I dont think you can. Someone needs to figure this one out!

snoze · #9 19th December 2006, 03:12 AM

Def Beryl is one of the most wonderful application i ever have in linux. You can do what ever you want.. playing with beryl is a good time pass for me. But same time it is eating most of my comp resourcese. With one application of firefox with random animation option in beryl i can do work much faster then i want. But if i will open two or three application, then i think I am running windows under dos. It just stop working and it is like searching my old post in this message board. any idea guys

rappermas · #10 19th December 2006, 07:49 AM

Firefox is terrible under beryl. That's the only app that makes the thing slow down--try it. Open up firefox, get to some page, and flip the cube. Notice how it jerks? It doesn't do that between any other apps. And it only does it after leaving an active desktop with firefox on it. Lol, I just realized I made no sense there, but maybe someone will figure it out.

I don't really understand what you mean by "fixing the cube." Looks fine.

And I love the fire effect.

Note: for those wanting to use the native Metacity (gnome) themes, install Heliodor and use it as the Window Decorator.

Jongi · #11 19th December 2006, 09:56 AM

I'm guessing by fixing the cube he means to have it stop at the angles shown in the pictures. For instance on my computer a cube flips very quickly and I never see what is on two sides of a cube.

JN4OldSchool · #12 19th December 2006, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongi

I'm guessing by fixing the cube he means to have it stop at the angles shown in the pictures. For instance on my computer a cube flips very quickly and I never see what is on two sides of a cube.

Exactly. I'd like to be able to take my fingers off ctrl and alt and the mouse, walk away and still have the diagonal of the cube pointing towards me. BTW, in KDE you can take the screen snapshot by putting a delay in Ksnapshot, how do you do this in Gnome, XFCE or even with CLI? Print screen wont work when the cube is on the diagonal and I only have so many fingers anyway!

rappermas · #13 19th December 2006, 08:45 PM

Come to think of it, that's not such a bad idea--leaving the cube rotated.

Perhaps the beryl devs will listen if we ask for it?