Peter
Beryl 0.2.0 has just been released:
Beryl 0.2.0 is a complete overhaul of Beryl. The last stable release 0.1, featured a very fun, and eye-candy based compositing window manager. However, since it’s release, many parts of beryl have been rewritten, replaced, or simply dropped. The Beryl team has put in numerous hours to bring you this release. It’s filled with fun, eye-candy, better user support, new features, and most of all, stability. While Beryl has had numerous developer releases, known by their 0.1.X versions, 0.2.0 has been throughly tested by many more users.
I looked at how to configure Beryl in a previous tutorial and personally, I absolutely love this bit of software.
The new version apparently includes:
* New Plugins
- Thumbnail: Thumbnails on the taskbar (window list) which show a mini view of the actual window
- Snap: Allows windows to “snap” to each other, or provide edge resistance
- Opacify: Makes windows behind the active window transparent
- Group: Allows windows to be group, to easily switch between a set of windows* New system requirements check
- The improved check has much better accuracy
- The check is a lot faster* New Window Decorators
- Since 0.1, we have two new window decorators
- Heliodor: Uses metacity themes
- Aquamarine: Uses Kwin themes.* Newly Rewritten Beryl-Settings
- Written in Python
- More user-friendly UI
- Better profile support* New Translations
- Thanks to all of our foreign speaking users, we’ve had a much better time getting translations
in, and completed. So thank you!
As always, you might hve to wait a few days for your distribution vendor to get the latest version into your repositories, but that shouldn't take too long and soon you'll be able to use your software update tool to get the latest effects.
