Vista cloned with XGL/Beryl

The General · 10-19-2006, 11:50 PM

Finally got Vista cloned with XGL/Beryl ... check it out:

Compiz theme:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=46860

GTK2 theme:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=42697

I used Beryl, you may need the blur plugin. Set it to gausian with the highest numbers.

Greg · 10-20-2006, 12:55 AM

Looking good, how'd you get the gnome panel to look so nice? Any time I use a background image it makes the window list look screwed up, and same with half of the icons that I have at the top.

The General · 10-20-2006, 01:00 AM

I didn't use a background image, I made it transparent with XGL/Beryl, so it was actually transparent and the stuff behind it was blurred.

Greg · 10-20-2006, 01:29 AM

Gotcha. Maybe it was just my theme that was screwy.

You can also tell Beryl to set 'Unknown' windows as 95% opacity, and that will give you nice looking menus and tooltips. Not sure if you knew that already.

Heres an example/another desktop screenshot:

What Beryl and GTK themes are you using?

The General · 10-20-2006, 02:11 AM

Just put your mouse over the gnome panels, and hold alt and scroll, it will adjust their opacity. :classic:

Thanks for the tip on the menus and tooltips.

I'm trying to get this XGL/Beryl thing to work in Debian to no avail. It just does not want to work, I think my "start xgl" script is broken but I dunno where the log is kept so I dunno what to fix.

Any ideas?

Greg · 10-20-2006, 02:20 AM

hmm, I have no idea. I don't use a script to start xgl, the howto that I followed told me to put an entry into a gdm configuration file or something.

Quote:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom

Go to the very bottom of the file, and just below the [servers] section, add:

Code:

0=Xgl

[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo
flexible=true

(That smiley is supposed to be a ": p")

Not sure if that will help you any, though

The General · 10-20-2006, 02:35 AM

Ohh, yeah I was following this one, where you choose it instead of gnome as you login. Seems like a better way to do it for me, as I need to disable it for games, but I dunno it's just not working, I may need to compile it myself.

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Xgl-Compiz-Dapper

Greg · 10-20-2006, 02:56 AM

Well when you get it working, have a look at something like this for playing games (I used a different guide, but this one looks much better. I will probably test it out within the next few days).

The General · 10-20-2006, 04:04 PM

Thanks, ET works through that on my laptop.

Anyway, after some digging, I found out that Beryl is going to be in the official Debian repositories. It is possible to use Beryl/Compiz without xserver-xgl using AIGLX, (Option "AIGLX" "True" in your xorg.conf? I haven't tried it yet but I certainly will when I get home.) I should probably move this to a new thread in the Linux section. PMing a mod...

http://forum.beryl-project.org/topic...ebian-packages

EDIT: Actually I just totally broke Debian, I can't boot now. Two options:

1. Try and fix Debian, which will probably not work. I need to get rid of Windows anyway, because I never use it and it's 250gb of wasted harddrivespace. Reinstall Debian, really.

2. Install Ubuntu, but I need to know how to setup the LVM with 3 partitions as my /home so if anyone knows how to do that, let me know. I want the eyecandy, lol.

Streetz · 10-20-2006, 04:20 PM

Looks good!! I'll have to try it out whenever I get my server fixed. Stupid processor went out, the replacement should be there when I get home. We'll see.

Keep up the good work

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