Last Thursday, afternoon, I got a buzz in my IM from Anuradha. And he said “Anu shall we do a small thing? will take only 10 minits”. I was bit free in the office at that time and I've started off with him. he's telling me to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and I'm following the exact steps he's typing in the IM. After a couple of minits (and ofcourse emailing the xorg.conf after edting by Anuradha) I've managed to Install (from Anuradha's repository) and run Beryl window manager with Emerald Themes on my Debain Gnu/Linux (etch) system. And I got pretty impressed with it.Since I have an Ubuntu Edgy Eft installation on my notebook, I thought of Installing Beryl on Ubuntu too. Wow, very nice and smoothly I've install the Beryl Window Manager and Emerald Themes. I googled to find an ubuntu repository to get the Beryl binaries.
Steps I've followed are below in this post, and it's pretty easy to install Beryl on Ubuntu Edgy. Since Edgy comes with an AiGLX inbuilt xorg, you don't need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
My graphic card is Intel Mobile Integrated graphic controller, and the driver is i810.
Take a terminal.
# sudo su -
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
and put the following line in your list
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main
and you have to get the GPG Key.
# wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
# apt-get update
# apt-get install beryl
This will install the Beryl Window Manager, but you need the Emerald Theme Manager to make decorate it. ;-)
# apt-get install emerald-themes
This will install a set of thmes. BTW if you find any error on installing these with apt-get, then use
# aptitude install beryl emerald-themes
This will install all the recommended packages.
Then restart the xserver, just to refresh. ;-)
Then at the run command box, type,
beryl-manager
that's it!
Here I have 2 screen shots of the effets, you will enjoy the cool features on this once you have installed it!
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main
and you have to get the GPG Key.
# wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
# apt-get update
# apt-get install beryl
This will install the Beryl Window Manager, but you need the Emerald Theme Manager to make decorate it. ;-)
# apt-get install emerald-themes
This will install a set of thmes. BTW if you find any error on installing these with apt-get, then use
# aptitude install beryl emerald-themes
This will install all the recommended packages.
Then restart the xserver, just to refresh. ;-)
Then at the run command box, type,
beryl-manager
that's it!
Here I have 2 screen shots of the effets, you will enjoy the cool features on this once you have installed it!
