Minn Myat Soe :: His Notes

I was living with OpenBox as my Windows Manager for more than a year, and now it is time to embrace Beryl. Ever since Compiz, I tried to install and feel it on my Gentoo. It was never a success, unless I switched to another distro that supports Compiz out of the box.

Compiz is a great product of Novell to support OpenGL accelerated desktop. Eye-candy. Even Windows Vista lacks some of its features. Beryl is a fork of Compiz, and its a combination of Windows Manager and Composite Manager. Windows Manager usually decorates our X Windows, and Composite Manager tries to combine windows and images to create special effects.

Frankly speaking, I never liked my Linux Desktop looks like Microsoft Windows. But Windows Vista’s Aero feature has me hold my breath.  Especially I like Windows frame’s transparency effect. Now this feature is on my Linux Desktop.

To install Beryl, I had to upgrade my X Server to 7.2 to support AIGLX, my primary accelerator for OpenGL, without any hassle. Switched to KDE and configured KDE to use Beryl emerald as Windows Manager. Turned off KDE’s built-in effects which interferes with Beryl. Now my Gentoo desktop is coming to live with stunning effects :)

This might help when you want to include DAG repository in CentOS.

Firstly, import Dag’s GPG keys.

rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

Secondly, create a repo for yum in /etc/yum.repos.d, and name it something like dag.repo. And add the following to that file:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/

Here comes Valentine’s Gift from Yahoo! For our everyday’s HTML and AJAX needs, Yahoo! has just given us Yahoo! User Interface Library, and all the components are released under Open Source License (BSD License). Better than flowers, huh?

Yeah, we’ve got libraries and that pushes us further into endless possibilities of creating useful applications. To make best use of those tools to create applications, there’s got to be some guidelines and documentations. Again, Yahoo! provides us Design Pattern Libarary. To go further, there’s a blog for everything we need to know about those libraries and design patterns.

TechForge.com aims multiple channels for specific technologies, and now it’s starting with Eclipse, which is my favourite Java IDE. Now I have a chance to learn more about that technology at one place.

Slackware is dropping Gnome from its next distribution. Patrick says…

Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME
itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond
the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent
desktop choice. So are a lot of others, but Slackware does not need to ship
every choice. GNOME is and always has been a moving target (even the
“stable” releases usually aren’t quite ready yet) that really does demand a
team to keep up on all the changes (many of which are not always well
documented). I fully expect that this move will improve the quality of both
Slackware itself, and the quality (and quantity) of the GNOME options
available for it.

Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work. Enjoy. :-)

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