Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users.
Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace.
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- Mostly written in C/C++
- Very large, active development team
- Few source code comments
- Short source control history
Updated 01 Jul 2007 22:48 UTC
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Snazzy!
by Halleck
Beryl is a fun toy to play with, and it's great at impressing people who think that Linux still looks like Twm/Motif. It's the most futuristic and flashy window manager I've seen on any platform. Highly configureable via the Beryl-manager GUI. The "Desktop Cube" is a great metaphor and the fully rendered 3D cube is very, very slick. However, after the novelty wore off I went back to GNOME Metacity for the performace gain.
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- http://www.beryl-project.org/
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