Beryl

Not only does the new project that results from the merge of Compiz and Beryl have a new name -- Compiz Fusion -- it also comes with a whole host of new features, which are introduced in this post…

After several weeks of discussion the leaders of Compiz and Beryl have agreed that the two communities shall reunite. This decision is supported by both David and Quinn and represents the…

"Recently Quinns post to the beryl-dev mailing list entitled 'Merge on' has led to a lot of discussion, some of which has been good and some of which has led to a lot of misinformation, to clear…

The Beryl project has just released beryl 0.2.1. There’s nothing NEW in the release. However all of the licenses have been fixed so that it can go into Debian and Ubuntu.

Beryl 0.2.1 fixes…

Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release 0.1, featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it’s release, many parts of beryl have…

Ubuntu Linux is not the prettiest of operating systems. I mean sure, it has some nice neat themes, but when it comes to toolbars, windows and other graphical stuff, it really does not cut the…

Beryl 0.2.0 RC2 is now tagged and released, check your repos for updates in the next day or so. This release includes minor bugfixes to issues with cube, emerald, window snapoffs have been re-…

Yeah it is out. This is a preview release of the upcomming Beryl 0.2.0 which has been branched off into its more or less final form minus a couple bug fixes. It does have a couple known bugs, so…

The Beryl team has been working on a great new project to allow different wallpapers on different sides of the cube and to allow transparent desktop backgrounds. Look for this in the upcoming 0.2.…

Beryl the OpenGL accelerated desktop just released Beryl 0.2.0 Beta2 over the weekend. This release brings a lot of fixes for the problems many people experienced with Beta1.

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