I think ya'll know my point of view where this "beryl" thingie is concerned, and although I can get it running on my P4 3.06 GHz, 1 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 system, "works" is definitely not the term I'd use to describe the process.
For starters, if LD_PRELOAD needs to be set, why doesn't the beryl-manager do it by itself without the need for a command-line kludge? Secondly, why doesn't this particular version make the beryl-manager available in the System-->Preferences-->More Preferences menu anymore? And finally, when I do run beryl-manager, it kills off metacity but doesn't replace it with anything until I force it to reload the window manager.
Bottom line... If you're into dicking around with your computer, this is all just fine, but if instead, you're into using the box, beryl is still lame-ware. I'll probably continue to give it a spin whenever a new version comes out, but it'll have to become a whole lot more robust before I'll make it part of my standard setup.
I'm sure it will eventually become a fine desktop environment, assuming it's developers take a bit more responsibility for their code and develop a more rigorous testing program, but for now, it remains most appropriate for hobbyists and developers. Just my $0.02 worth...
Regards,
Bert
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