[clug] Audio Player

[Tony and Robyn Lewis]

Tarrant wrote:
> Wee time to get wobbly windows and transparency working. Any specific
> instructions to get it working out of the box on a new install of Edgy?
>   

I had recent (yesterday) success with using the instructions at
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Dapper/XGL.  YMMV 
depending on whether you:
 * want XGL vs AIGLX
 * want Beryl vs Compiz
 * have ATI vs nvidia
 * are using dapper or edgy

See http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu and make your 
choices.

Here's the thing, though.  I wobbled some windows around, and loved it.  
And then I found some of the things that currently get in the way of my 
functionality:
 * you can't use KDE's virtual desktop - all your windows appear on one 
desktop to KDE, but (I assume) Beryl then puts them on different sides 
of the cube.  I had no idea how much I liked the idea of being able to 
click on the virtual desktop to go straight there, until I couldn't do it
 * things like VMware wouldn't go full screen - I surmise it was 
something to do with VMware not being able to find out the resolution of 
the desktop, or not being able to convice the window manager to not 
decorate it.  Or something
 * all the windows in the taskbar showed up on the bottom of every 
desktop (I assume because KDE thought they were all on the one desktop

So, I'm back to using normal X with KWin (a.o.t. Xgl with Beryl).  It's 
impressive stuff, though.

Tony