[sclug] using Xgl and Beryl

[John Barron]

Playing around with this...

following the Ubuntu wiki, Xgl installed nicely enough, compiz/compiz-kde 
weren't going to do so, apt-get wasn't happy with it. Beryl, however, loaded 
and worked fine, after referring to the compiz and beryl instructions on the 
wiki.

KDE has been my usual desktop, however with Xgl/Beryl enabled I found 
performance rather sluggish, perhaps because my machine is not very new or 
well-endowed (256MB RAM, 32MB nVidia video card). So I was trying it out with 
Xfce/Xgl/Beryl, which seems much more comfortable - maybe I should stick with 
Xfce :-)

Effects are very pretty, not sure how much it really adds to usability and 
productivity, though it does look great. A couple of screenshots here:
http://static.flickr.com/103/274844452_5a55157cdb_o.png
http://static.flickr.com/90/274874828_4574ab3110_o.png

better still would be to find some convenient way to take a short video of the 
screen display, since you need to see it moving to really show this stuff 
off. Any suggestions?

cheers
John