More Beryl on Solaris Screenshots

I spent a couple of hours last Sunday morning compiling Beryl on Solaris. it required a few source code tweaks including tweaking the glext.h from the Nvidia driver package to fix a duplicate function prototype problem. Thanks to Erwann and others for providing instructions and patches.

I got Beryl to work on my home AMD box with a GeForce 7300 card though it is a bit unstable. A couple of plugins, if enabled can also cause a hard hang. I intend to investigate the issues.  The effects with Beryl are way cool though and here are a few screenshots.

The oh so famous Cube!

Beryl Cube

Alt+TAB with a difference.

Alt TAB

All windows Expose'-ed

Expose' 

My colorful OpenSolaris Desktop with Beryl's Minimized Window Preview.

Window Preview

 

Posted on: Apr 10, 2007

Posted by: moinakg

Category: General

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Comments:

wow, this really looks cool.
how is the performance? is it running at a normal speed? like under ubuntu?
looking forward to see the compile instructions.. ;)

Posted by Logic on April 10, 2007 at 02:28 PM PDT #

Awesome awesome!

Posted by Glynn Foster on April 10, 2007 at 09:03 PM PDT #

I will post the compile instructions shortly. In the meanwhile I am gonna prepare Solaris packages for Beryl/Compiz and a small package to update some missing stuff in Solaris Xorg 7.2.

Posted by Moinak Ghosh on April 11, 2007 at 07:30 AM PDT #

As for performance it is really smooth with the Nvidia driver on Solaris on par with whatever you'd get with the Nvidia driver on Ubuntu. Much better than what I have experienced previously with the crappy fglrx with ATI cards earlier on SuSE/Ubuntu.

Posted by Moinak Ghosh on April 11, 2007 at 07:46 AM PDT #

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