Niath » Beryl http://tiagoboldt.net/blog Rambles on technology Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:01:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Compiz Fusion http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/compiz-fusion/ http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/compiz-fusion/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:00:41 +0000 tiagoboldt http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/?p=200 The merge between Compiz and Beryl finally has an official web site.

Anyone can now learn about compiz fusion at http://www.compiz-fusion.org/ or the details about the project, like, how to enable each plugin or get help installing anything related to compiz fusion at http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/.

]]> http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/compiz-fusion/feed/ 0 Mercury Messenger + Compiz Fusion http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/mercury-messenger-compiz-fusion/ http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/mercury-messenger-compiz-fusion/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:11:20 +0000 tiagoboldt http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/?p=190 Finally, I’ve found some good way around the issue between java and compiz, that kept me from using mercury. I’m able to use both now, with the tray working and all is working fine. If there’s anyone out there also trying to solve this:

Start by downloading this patch for the jre engine, and then move it to the path of the folder and uncompress it

cd /path/of/the/patch/
tar -xf patch.tar
cd patch

After that, we need to find the java file that is going to be patched. Usually in an Ubuntu system, this is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib and the target file is rt.jar. Make a copy of it and then copy it into the current directory (…/path/ )

sudo cp /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/rt.jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/rt.jar.old
sudo cp /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/rt.jar rt.zip

Now patch the file and overwrite the old one

zip -f rt.zip sun/awt/X11/*
sudo cp rt.zip /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/rt.jar

After this, I’ve just started mercury, and all was up and running.

I must thank FIREcracker for the good tutorial, all credits to him.

]]> http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/mercury-messenger-compiz-fusion/feed/ 8 Beryl in Ubuntu http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/beryl-in-ubuntu/ http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/beryl-in-ubuntu/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:32:00 +0000 tiagoboldt http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/?p=128 I’m happy to see that all the legal issues were put behind, and that beryl is already available in the Ubuntu repositories.

Beryl is a fork of compiz, but, in my opinion, it is developing way much faster! In the past few days, there has been some huge discussion, to define if beryl should merge with compiz, creatting a new project with a third name. Two days ago, Quinn Storm, the leader of the beryl project, has agreed with the merge. This probably won’t be ready in time for feisty, but I’m sure that, if the merge goes smooth and no problem appears between the developers, feisty+1 will surely have some awesome desktop effects!

]]> http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/beryl-in-ubuntu/feed/ 0 Beryl 0.2 http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/beryl-02/ http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/beryl-02/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:19:00 +0000 tiagoboldt http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/?p=122 Beryl 0.2 is finally out!

I’ve made my upgrades and finally the ATI issues are solved. My window decoration is running fast and stable! If you’re using Ubuntu, upgrade from these official repositories:

  • deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org edgy main
  • deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org feisty main
  • deb http://debian.beryl-project.org etch main

While nvidia user are able to run it from Aixgl, all of ATI users, using ATI official driver must use XGL, in order to do this, install xserver-xgl from your package manager and before you login, select the XGL session. Run beryl-manager to start it.

Enjoy

Digg!

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