Beryl 0.2 is out! Portage ETA?

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BonesToo · Post by **BonesToo** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:37 pm

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE

Link: http://blog.beryl-project.org/?p=29

jonnevers · Post by **jonnevers** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:58 pm

BonesToo wrote:PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE

Link: http://blog.beryl-project.org/?p=29

layman -a xeffects

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A /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects/x11-wm/beryl-core/beryl-core-0.2.0.ebuild

I'm emerging it now.

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:09 pm

What is it people have against kittens?

BonesToo · Post by **BonesToo** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:12 pm

Voltago wrote:What is it people have against kittens?

But I love kittens! I just love beryl more

jonnevers · Post by **jonnevers** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:15 pm

BonesToo wrote:But I love kittens! I just love beryl more

that kitty is damn cute!

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host user # emerge -pv beryl

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-wm/beryl-0.2.0  USE="gnome -kde -noemerald" 0 kB [2] 

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
 [1] /usr/local/portage
 [2] /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects

log · Post by **log** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:19 am

Hopefully we can get it in portage soonish...

I am going to teach about 200 students next week how to install linux (only red hat 8 ). Sounds lame right? I let them bring any other binary distro if they want (I tell them that Ubuntu and Fedora are good).

So what I do is grab my gentoo box and show them what linux can be! Running a movie trailer and having some games open whilst rotating the cube and having other fancy effects tends to impress them (remember, these are your typical 18-20 year old 1st year uni students who have never heard of linux)

Ill try the overlay and see how it goes.

EDIT: I hate kittens! I am allergic to cats and in Australia, cats kill native animals!

nesl247 · Post by **nesl247** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:46 am

The ebuilds are in the xeffects overlay. The ebuilds will be in portage as soon as they are. Tsunam knows about the release as far as I know, but remember, he has to look over the ebuilds. I'm not the gentoo dev, I only write the ebuilds.

log · Post by **log** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:50 am

No worries!

I used the overlay and it worked fine (after enabling glitz use flag). So my students will see the beauty of the latest linux desktop next week.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:15 am

how come so many other distros get to enjoy all the eye-candy before gentoo? we are the bleeding edge...are we, no more? c'mon, tsunam, give us our candy....pretty please!!...

log · Post by **log** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:18 am

Haha, Beryl 0.2.0 has been out only a few days and you're begging?

There is the xeffects overlay (which is surprisingly easy to install) if you want to try out the latest Beryl.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:35 am

log wrote:Haha, Beryl 0.2.0 has been out only a few days and you're begging?

There is the xeffects overlay (which is surprisingly easy to install) if you want to try out the latest Beryl.

I am just having fun!!

My sucky prop. nvidia driver doesn't allow me to enjoy beryl (it oops'ed my otherwise very stable system once), so I uninstalled it sometime back.

BTW, It got released today! And astonishingly, ubuntu had an update in the morning while we gentooers wait for ebuild in the tree! I was begging for everyone, personally I won't use it. Next desktop upgrade (polish!) for me is in the summer (hopefully!) when kde4 comes out.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:06 am

devsk wrote:BTW, It got released today! And astonishingly, ubuntu had an update in the morning while we gentooers wait for ebuild in the tree! I was begging for everyone, personally I won't use it. Next desktop upgrade (polish!) for me is in the summer (hopefully!) when kde4 comes out.

Ubuntu doesn't package beryl, a third party repository does. So in this case, Gentoo fares better; we have it in a third party repository (Xeffects), and once it has been sufficiently tested it goes into the main tree.

Paapaa · Post by **Paapaa** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:14 am

Just curious: why is Beryl not in Portage with masked status as it _will_ eventually get into Portage? Why to resort in an overlay?

n3bul4 · Post by **n3bul4** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:51 am

I think thats because layman uses SVN sources
where functionality is really untested....
Masked packages are known to have problems with
other packages etc...

Anybody a clue why scrolling in firefox (with beryl manager)
is so slow and eats a lot of CPU? Scrolling is just perfect
in other apps.

regards

nesl247 · Post by **nesl247** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:49 am

n3bul4 wrote:I think thats because layman uses SVN sources
where functionality is really untested....
Masked packages are known to have problems with
other packages etc...

Anybody a clue why scrolling in firefox (with beryl manager)
is so slow and eats a lot of CPU? Scrolling is just perfect
in other apps.

regards

You most likely have smooth scrolling on.

Evincar · Post by **Evincar** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:09 am

Come on, Beryl 0.2.0 has been out for what, 24 hours?

. PERHAPS you are just a tiny bit impatient?

Emerging it now...along updates for QT3, QT4, and GTK

. This could take a while...

arabis · Post by **arabis** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:29 pm

Did someone try beryl-0.2.0 with XGL?

aproan · Post by **aproan** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:45 pm

does nvidia work well with this?

Paapaa · Post by **Paapaa** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:51 pm

When someone sees Beryl 0.2.0 in Portage tree, please say "Whooptie-doo".

madisonicus · Post by **madisonicus** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:11 pm

It's been said many times, many ways, but apparently needs to be pointed out again: zero-day bump requests are ineffective, unhelpful, and rude to the devs that do work on these things.

There's a bug in bugzilla. There's an overlay in layman that I've been using successfully for weeks. Alternately, help write up an ebuild and contribute to the project.

nesl247 · Post by **nesl247** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:29 pm

arabis: Yes it works fine.

Evincar · Post by **Evincar** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:04 pm

arabis wrote:Did someone try beryl-0.2.0 with XGL?

Works fine, and the setting managers is much more friendly and clean. I didn't have enough time with 0.1.4 to compare, though

.

jonnevers · Post by **jonnevers** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:39 pm

madisonicus wrote:It's been said many times, many ways, but apparently needs to be pointed out again: zero-day bump requests are ineffective, unhelpful, and rude to the devs that do work on these things.

There's a bug in bugzilla. There's an overlay in layman that I've been using successfully for weeks. Alternately, help write up an ebuild and contribute to the project.

you're a good 15 hours late to the party. thanks for playing though! not to mention you are restating like 4 other people have already stated in this thread.....

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:39 pm

can the xeffects overlay be fetched as a tar? svn refuses to work with proxies although .subversion/servers has entries for http_proxy and http_port.

jonnevers · Post by **jonnevers** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:41 pm

devsk wrote:can the xeffects overlay be fetched as a tar? svn refuses to work with proxies although .subversion/servers has entries for http_proxy and http_port.

afaik, no. I recently got a gentoo box behind a firewall and was very distressed to learn that subversion requires certain ports or protocols or whatever open on the proxy. I just don't get why it was designed like that but... I've found no workaround for it yet.

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