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Ok I saw on youtube this amazing cube effect thing and all and it says it was beryl. Now do I need a fancy video card t odo that kind of thing or will the one that came in my laptop be good enough. My laptop is a year old this month, so it isn't obselete or anything. Also how do I get the desktop effects to work in Ubuntu? I click on enable and the screen turns white and goes back but nothing happens. What do I do?
Beryl is a windows manager like Metacity ( GNOME ) and Kwin ( KDE ) Enlightenment, etc...
A window manager is not the same as a desktop environment ( GNOME, KDE, Fluxbox, etc... ) but the way it works with the windows and the environment. ( hence the name "window manager" )
Also, by the desktop effects, it says that the effects aren't stable yet and experimental and may not work with your graphics card and even has bugs!
So I guess we'd have to wait on that one.
There are more instructions on the beryl thing in ubuntu, you have to do some extra configuring and all after downloading the package.
Use some search engine and type in " running beryl on ubuntu" or " getting beryl to work on ubuntu" etc...
You can search for "ubuntu beryl wiki" (replace "ubuntu" with whatever Linux distribution you're using). Getting Beryl to work can be a challenge, and even in the simplest of cases there may be some significant manual effort involved.
What sort of video chip does your laptop have? If it's Ati Radeon 9250 or lower, then I know how to do it. The already included open source "ati" driver should work just fine, and there are a couple things which need to be manually added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if not already there) to make it work.
You can search for "ubuntu beryl wiki" (replace "ubuntu" with whatever Linux distribution you're using). Getting Beryl to work can be a challenge, and even in the simplest of cases there may be some significant manual effort involved.
What sort of video chip does your laptop have? If it's Ati Radeon 9250 or lower, then I know how to do it. The already included open source "ati" driver should work just fine, and there are a couple things which need to be manually added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if not already there) to make it work.
That ATI thing looks familiar! Please send all the instruction that you can, that would be lovely.
Please make it as simple as you can, like you are telling a child. lol.
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