I know what they are, I run them. I'm curious about the technical relationship in the scheme of things. Under a 'normal' desktop the window manager and desktop environment provide different levels of functionality.
I am trying to draw an analogy between the two major components of a 'normal' desktop and a 'wobbyly' desktop. Which part is responsible for what? Way back when I had thought that xgl or aixgl were basically window managers that brought all sorts of eye candy to the windows and that Compiz or Beryl were desktop environments. However, since I am running GNome (Metacity) with Beryl, clearly Metacity is the DE and not Beryl. I am therefore confused exactly what part Beryl or Compiz plays. J Mitchell Brown wrote: > Compiz and Beryl basically are Eye Candy 101. They make your windows > have a 3d appearance, a ripple effect, etc. It is also responsible for > the "cube effect" you might have seen before in videos such as this: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ > > On 6/11/07, *Jon* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thanks. > > So xgl and aixgl are composition managers? And what are compiz and > beryl, then, just the window managers? > > Always curious about the relationship. > > J > --- > Sent from the road... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Date: Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 6:01 pm > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Weekly Poll > To: CLUG General <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>Reply-To: CLUG General <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > On Sun, 2007-10-06 at 17:48 -0600, Jon wrote: > Is it Beryl? I'm not sure but someone told me it was Xgl. > > Admittedly, I'm not really up on the diff between Xgl, aixgl, and > Beryl other than Bery is a Compiz fork. > > Beryl will work with xgl or aiglx as the composition manager. Feisty > actually comes with Compiz out of the box, but includes Beryl in one > of the repositories. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > <http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
