It Is Working With Beryl Now March 12th, 2007

This three past days has been exiting days for me. I have successfully installed Beryl on my laptop. Yes, I still don’t have 3d driver but I can install Beryl with mesa. Beryl looks pretty cool. There is water effect when you point your mouse to icon in top panel. When you change the workspace (or viewport in Beryl terminology), there is a cube side changing effect. You can see the top of the cube with Ctrl + Shift + Up. There is big red diamond (or ruby?) picture. If you Ctrl + Shift + Up again, you will be in another workspace. In Beryl you have four workspaces. Each of them is representing one of the side of the cube. The top and bottom side is represented with big red diamond (or ruby?) picture. There is transparent effect in window too. You can shake the window (click and hold window titlebar and move the mouse around) like you shake the leaf. It will not be a perfect rectangular anymore. Off course you can add more workspaces in Beryl. But vertical workspaces is not working yet.

Back to Wallpapoz, I could test it. I check the workspace with other property of xprop. Workspaces in Beryl is a big screen actually. So one workspace in Beryl is a part of that big screen. Imagine you have 1024×768 screen resolution. Beryl give you four workspaces for default setting. The big screen has 4096×768 size. The workspace off course has 1024×768 size. Imagine the workspaces is showed in two lines. For example you have eight workspaces lined up in two rows and every row will have four workspaces. The big screen will have 4096×1536 size. You can get the big screen size from the _NET_DESKTOP_GEOMETRY(CARDINAL) property of xprop. Another property that is important is _NET_DESKTOP_VIEWPORT(CARDINAL). It tells you your position in big screen and you can get your workspace position from this property. If you are in the first workspace, this property will be 0, 0. If you are in second workspace, it will be 1024, 0 (assuming the first and second workspace is in one row). If you are in fifth workspace with eight workspaces split in two rows, it will be 0, 768. I think you get the idea. Checking these properties, I know where I am in Beryl. I have tested the daemon in Beryl. Yes, it is working.

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