Beryl will be the standard composite windows manager on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Here's a little taste of what's to come next April. In the video, Beryl runs on Edgy Eft installed on a Compaq Evo d310, 1.8 GHz, 384 MiB RAM, with a 256-MiB NVidia XFX GeForce 680 video card. Keep in mind that this is a 3 year-old configuration. You won't be able to do that with Windows Vista. …

Wine 0.9.24 + Elfe’s Awesome Hack0ring Power + Ubuntu 6.10 Final + 6 hours = Eve on Linux! And look at that nice Workspace switching! Go Elfe! Go Wine! Go Linux!!

Demonstration of the 3D desktop under Linux Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.1.0.
The demo features a total of 30 effects, but there are plenty more!

Part 1:
Minimize effect “Beam up”
Minimize effect “Burn”
Minimize effect “Curved folds”
Minimize effect “Dream”
Minimize effect “Fade”
Minimize effect “Horizontal folds”
Minimize effect “Magic Lamp1″
Minimize effect “Magic Lamp2″
Minimize effect “Sidekick”
Minimize effect “Zoom”
Inversing color of the screen
Inversing color of the current window
Taking a screenshot
Wobbly windows

Note:
Many of these effects might be seen as pure “eye candy”. However, some of them like the scaling function (which is the linux adequate of MacOS’s Exposé function) will speed up your everyday work.

Go to beryl-project.org for more info.

Watch part 1 of the demo here:

Demonstration of the 3D desktop under Linux Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.1.0.
The demo features a total of 30 effects, but there are plenty more!

Part 1:
Translucent windows
Switching between windows from current workspace
Switching between windows from all workspaces
Scaling all workspaces
Scaling current workspace
Switching to desktop of current cube face
Switching desktops on cube
Sending the active window to the left/right workspace
Rotating the cube manually
Rotating the cube manually with 3D effects
Zooming in/out
Moving windows (without resizing first)
Resizing windows
Mouse pointer moving on water
Rain falling on screen

Note:
Many of these effects might be seen as pure “eye candy”. However, some of them like the scaling function (which is the linux adequate of MacOS’s Exposé function) will speed up your everyday work.

Go to beryl-project.org for more info.

Watch part 2 of the demo here: