Speaking of Desktops

[Jack]

OK, I've turned Beryl on in my Intel chipset Compaq
replacement to an HP laptop. Kudos to HP support!
They rock! Just wish they were a bit more Linux
friendly.

It seems a bit flaky, it thinks all my apps are in 
Desktop 1. I'm not sure why it is using that naming
convention. I may be missing something. I dragged
several now very rubbery apps (that's kinda creepy),
into different desktops. I then moved one app to a
different desktop via the menu, now I can't get it
back. Also all the rubbery motion effects have given
me a headache, so I don't think I'll be using Beryl
much. But then Quake makes me nauseous to watch,
motion sickness and all that. So YMMV.

I'll be glad to test out Beryl, on this PC for anyone
who want me to.

Specs:
Compaq Presario V6000,
Intel Centrino Core2 Duo T5300 1.73GHz,
2GB RAM,
Intel 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated video, 
rest of the Intel chipset,
other Bells and Whistles.

Now all I have to do is find that missing app...

--- Ty Unes <riverty at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> I've played with Beryl and Compiz before the merge.
> I would only guess
> that it's about the same after the merge. In my
> experience, it was
> impossible to get any stability out of Beryl with an
> ATI card. Only
> marginal stability with Compiz and an ATI card.
> Definately run an NVidia
> card with this stuff. Compiz was very stable for me
> running an NVidia
> GeForce 7950 GT (fairly heavy video card), while
> Beryl was not. It
> seemed that there was certain settings that I could
> turn on and lock the
> machine. If I stayed away from those certain
> settings, all was good.
> 
> As for eye-candy, definately beats anything I've
> ever seen. Brings a new
> level of workstation goodies to play with. True,
> it's a waste of system
> resources, but it didn't seems to slow my machine
> down much, if any. BTW
> - I'm currently NOT running any of these addons.
> 
> As far as Vista, it sucks. Same with Microsoft
> products, they suck. I
> work with both Linux and MS stuff all day long. MS
> stuff sucks. Am I
> biased? YEA! With reason.
> 
> On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 03:14 -0500, leenix wrote:
> > > You mean extremely counterproductive.
> > 
> > Yes Luke, that's exactly what I meant. Thanks.
> > 
> > 
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