A question for Kurt about XFCE+AIGLX

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:10 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm not Kurt, but I'll take a stab at this.  AIGLX is *part* of Xorg-7.1. 
> So if you're running FC6, and you'r running XFCE, then you're already 
> doing it.  Now if you are referring to using a compositing manager and/or 
> window manager that can do compositing, that is a separate issue 
> altogether.  The XFCE build that ships with FC6 comes with a fully 
> functional compositing manager.  There are a few unofficial howto's out 
> there on how to use beryl or compiz instead of XFCE's window manager 
> (xfwm).
> 

Thanks Lonni! Actually, I had to do quite a bit of googling and some
inference before I found some scraps of information on the FedoraForum
site, and found a thread started by Firewing1 which described the
process for KDE and Gnome (but little about XFCE). So I had a hunch that
it probably couldn't be too difficult. 

1. I did a yum install of beryl-gnome, which brought in emerald and
heliodor
2. Launched /usr/bin/beryl-manager to see if it installed OK. Voila!
Beautiful wobbly splash screen appears! Tried out a few effects --
amazing!
3. Exited session and rebooted to make sure that Beryl still works.
4. Beryl did not autostart. Googled a bit more and found that you need
to make XFCE launch beryl-manager and emerald when the session starts.
Found a useful desktop menu item "Autostarted Applications" and manually
specified and added beryl-manager and emerald.
5. Exited Xfce and re-started it. Up comes the wobbly splash screen
automagically !

Now, I have minimized icons on the desktop (a CDE feature) and fabulous
eye candy ! I'm really happy with my laptop now !

Regards,
pascal chong