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Beryl & AIGLX Video running on my Laptop
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:37 am
by Unique
Here's a video I took last night of my laptop running Beryl version 0.1.2 & AIGLX.
It has a intergraded Intel graphics card i810 with only 8 megs of ram.
See the youtube video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKBwkjd_k0
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:12 pm
by snarkout
How much CPU did that eat? How many times did it crash? What wm/desktop? You know - details, please.
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm
by Unique
Snarkout wrote:How much CPU did that eat? How many times did it crash? What wm/desktop? You know - details, please.
LMAO! It doesent use much CPU at all man... It's running on my laptop it's a 1.6 gig centrino with 512 megs of ram and a Intel i810 video card with only 8 megs of ram... XGL runs real slow on it but AIGLX on Ubuntu Edgy screams!
I'm running Beryl 0.1.2 and it is rock solid for me. I use Ubuntu Edgy Eft with Gnome.
I have it load on boot I never turn it off I can even play videos full screen witout any issues....
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:26 pm
by Karl
I just installed Beryl/AIGLX on Kubuntu. Its really nice. Doesn't seem to slow anything down either like XGL/Compiz did.
Where did you get 0.1.2 or did you compile it? I could not find 0.1.2 packaged.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:01 am
by Unique
Karl wrote:I just installed Beryl/AIGLX on Kubuntu. Its really nice. Doesn't seem to slow anything down either like XGL/Compiz did.
Where did you get 0.1.2 or did you compile it? I could not find 0.1.2 packaged.
Here's the repo that I use.
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deb http://ubuntu2.beryl-project.org edgy main
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:51 am
by hellonorman
How do you move the cube freestyle where you can keep it on the screen in mid turn and also see the top or bottom?
What is that thing called where you sort of minimize all the windows to thumbnails and can pick a window? I have this happen from time to time but I never know what I did to make it happen.
Is there a way you can share your settings?
Nice video by the way.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:49 pm
by Unique
hellonorman wrote:How do you move the cube freestyle where you can keep it on the screen in mid turn and also see the top or bottom?
What is that thing called where you sort of minimize all the windows to thumbnails and can pick a window? I have this happen from time to time but I never know what I did to make it happen.
Is there a way you can share your settings?
Nice video by the way.
Here's my Beryl Setings file. (This is what I used in the Video I posted)
beryl-settings.Profile
Right Click the above link & choose "Save Link as..."
Then Import it into Beryl.
I have the window tile plugin set to the Windows key!
For the Cube press and hold Ctrl+Alt while you click and hold your left mouse button. Once you click the mouse button you can let go of Ctrl and Alt.
hope this helps.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:48 pm
by hellonorman
Thanks.
The windows key(super) works when I use your profile but I can't seem to find which setting in which plugin controls it. I don't see anything called window tile. Can you tell me which setting in beryl settings manager affects the window tile?
I tried going through the settings manager and trying all the things with keyboard shortcuts to get an idea of what they do. Many other things are mapped to super+(keystroke) where as soon as you press super the window tile happens and the keystroke doesn't matter. Am I doing something wrong there or do those just need to be remapped?
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:42 pm
by Unique
hellonorman wrote:Thanks.
The windows key(super) works when I use your profile but I can't seem to find which setting in which plugin controls it. I don't see anything called window tile. Can you tell me which setting in beryl settings manager affects the window tile?
I tried going through the settings manager and trying all the things with keyboard shortcuts to get an idea of what they do. Many other things are mapped to super+(keystroke) where as soon as you press super the window tile happens and the keystroke doesn't matter. Am I doing something wrong there or do those just need to be remapped?
Aww ya I know what you meen. I will have to look when I get home from work...
I'll reply later on tonight.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:23 pm
by hellonorman
Unique wrote:hellonorman wrote:Thanks.
The windows key(super) works when I use your profile but I can't seem to find which setting in which plugin controls it. I don't see anything called window tile. Can you tell me which setting in beryl settings manager affects the window tile?
I tried going through the settings manager and trying all the things with keyboard shortcuts to get an idea of what they do. Many other things are mapped to super+(keystroke) where as soon as you press super the window tile happens and the keystroke doesn't matter. Am I doing something wrong there or do those just need to be remapped?
Aww ya I know what you meen. I will have to look when I get home from work...
I'll reply later on tonight.
Cool thanks.
A couple things I notice:
The animations look much nicer if you check the sync to vblank in general options. Especially the fire and beam animations.
I have been running the benchmark plugin to monitor the FPS while beryl is running. My system starts off stable consistently around 75 which I'm assuming corresponds to my monitor refresh rate. It will run fine for a while but eventually it drops to around 35 and stays there. This is often coupled with high cpu usage of Xorg and/or beryl as seen in the top command. If I restart the window manager it will fix the FPS back to 75 but then I get odd behavior at times like the cube rotate doesn't work when clicking the desktop switcher. So it usually requires a reboot to get everthing stable again.
It's a shame as I really am beginning to love the accelerated desktop but having to reboot multiple times a day is getting sort of annoying.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:38 pm
by Unique
hellonorman wrote:Unique wrote:hellonorman wrote:Thanks.
The windows key(super) works when I use your profile but I can't seem to find which setting in which plugin controls it. I don't see anything called window tile. Can you tell me which setting in beryl settings manager affects the window tile?
I tried going through the settings manager and trying all the things with keyboard shortcuts to get an idea of what they do. Many other things are mapped to super+(keystroke) where as soon as you press super the window tile happens and the keystroke doesn't matter. Am I doing something wrong there or do those just need to be remapped?
Aww ya I know what you meen. I will have to look when I get home from work...
I'll reply later on tonight.
Cool thanks.
A couple things I notice:
The animations look much nicer if you check the sync to vblank in general options. Especially the fire and beam animations.
I have been running the benchmark plugin to monitor the FPS while beryl is running. My system starts off stable consistently around 75 which I'm assuming corresponds to my monitor refresh rate. It will run fine for a while but eventually it drops to around 35 and stays there. This is often coupled with high cpu usage of Xorg and/or beryl as seen in the top command. If I restart the window manager it will fix the FPS back to 75 but then I get odd behavior at times like the cube rotate doesn't work when clicking the desktop switcher. So it usually requires a reboot to get everthing stable again.
It's a shame as I really am beginning to love the accelerated desktop but having to reboot multiple times a day is getting sort of annoying.
Awwww Yep!
I have it set to 60 FPS for my laptop cause thats what I got with it.... You could set it to 75 manually or just check the Sync to vblank check box.
What video card do you have?
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:11 pm
by hellonorman
I have a geforce 7600 gs.
This is another thing I notice that I didn't mention before.
My lcd monitor samsung 730B does 1280x1024 for native resolution. Normally the system-->preferences-->screen resolution would give a choice between 60 or 75 for refresh rate. Since I installed the new nvidia driver and beryl it gives a choice of 50 or 56. I didn't mind much though cause the monitor would report that it's running at 60.
Setting the refresh rate in beryl seems to have no affect really. It runs at whatever the monitor is reporting. With sync to vblank unchecked it runs around 700-800 with sync to vblank checked it runs at whatever the monitor is reporting.