BERYL ROCKS
June 6, 2007
Today I finally got Beryl working on my Ubuntu Feisty Acer laptop. I was a bit sceptical initially whether it will work out or not, given the fact that I had 256 MB RAM and an on-board graphics controller with the chipset but then when it worked out, it really had me ogling at the screen.
It started off with the Beryl-Manager and the red emerald on the panel. And then it was more fun experimenting with the features like adding animations where your windows vanish in flames and everywhere you expect something new but what really rocked was the 3D cube rotation with transparency. It was simply outstanding. Sadly everything is not so smooth for me right now. I tried to add opacity to the drop down menus but then they are having strange dark borders. Hopefully I will sort them out soon.
For the moment Beryl will stay on my laptop and this is my birthday gift to my laptop which was yesterday. Incidentally the warranty of my laptop expired yesterday after which I decided to go for Beryl. I am having an awesome time showing off the effects to Divya and teasing who is stuck with Dapper. Well I love Dapper too but then BERYL+FEISTY is just too good.
