If you’ve been impressed by Novell’s Xgl, you’ll probably be blown away by Beryl.
Beryl is the community fork of Xgl. In fact, some of the the Xgl videos you’ve seen of “Xgl” may actually have been compiz-quinnstorm, which is now called Beryl.
I would write a “how to”, but I’m not about to pass off someone else’s work as my own… and I installed Beryl from the simple instructions from this Beryl thread in Ubuntuforums. So, go there if you’re interested.
Beryl basically takes the eye-candy that Xgl starts with, and accelerates it, adds more options, and its own theme manager and configuration tool. It’s Xgl/compiz on steroids, if you will. Or maybe Xgl on psychotropics is a better metaphor… you decide.
