xgl/beryl on xfce4

[Richard Boyce]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Matt Thompson wrote:
>> The heavens stretched forth and Foxy decreed the following on or about
>> 12/08/2006 05:33 AM:
>>> valderdeiro at googlemail.com wrote:
>>>> Hello i was wandering if it possible to enjoy the beryl effects on xfce,
>>>> ive tried it but i didnt get it
>>> what distro do you use? It is very easy to get it on Ubuntu.
>> It's also available in Fedora Extras.
> 
> Right, however I've yet to come across any distro that sets up beryl to 
> work with XFCE.  They're all Gnome, with a few adding in KDE.

I'd concur with Foxy - I just got it working with Xfce on ubuntu. Not 
that I've kept it, I'm not sure it's stable enough for me yet! Installed 
using the omnipresent howtos, then ran:

killall xfwm
beryl --replace &
emerald --replace &
beryl-manager

Richard
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