Beryl Tip – Desktop Octagon

Everyone seems to associate beryl with a 3D rotating cube.  Well, try this in beryl-settings-manager:

General Options menu, General Options – change Horizontal Virtual Size to 8.
Desktop menu, Rotate Cube – increase the Zoom setting (mine is around 14).
Visual Effects menu, 3D Effects – check “Draw backsides of windows” under Advanced.
Visual Effects menu, 3D Effects – [...]

Beryl Performance Tip – Beryl/Compiz Consumes CPU

I thought I would put in a quick observation about CPU utilization under Beryl (which I assume would be similar for Compiz, maybe incorrectly). As I was wandering through my blog stats, I saw a search entry on “compiz consumes CPU”, so here is my experience in improving graphics performance under beryl:

Turn off mipmaps.

I [...]

More Good Beryl Info….

I found this blog, and and since most of the visitors here are looking for information on Beryl, thought I would post a link to his archived beryl articles. They look quite useful and informative, as does the rest of his site.
Check it out at:
The Nameless One’s Beryl Archive…

Installing Beryl on Mandriva 2007…

(Editorial note on May 22, 2007 – Since I wrote this article, Beryl had changed quite a bit, even merging with Compiz. I do not know how much of this is still accurate or relevant, so YMMV. When I get more time, I will put together more current instructions…. now, back [...]