Beryl-like 3d CUBE virtual desktop manager for Vista/XP! Here it is! | The Coffeehouse

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

Hereeeeee download it heree and start spinning the useless cube until your monitor explodes!

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

And it actually works. I like it.

pottymouth

Beryl isn't just a spinning cube. That's more what compiz does. Even compiz does way more than that though.

No matter how much windows tries to copy Linux, with UAC, with a spinning cube. Trying to emulate Gnome, ect....

They will never attain the awsomeness that Linux has achieved, because Linux has a huge head start and way more developers that develop the good stuff.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

It works pretty well... its nice and all that, but just as beryl, i doubt whether I will use it much during serious work.

Coupl'a problems:

1) Couldn't make multiple wallpapers work. As per documentation, using Windows to change the wallpaper on the different desktops should suffice, but every time I do that, all the desktops revert to that wallpaper.

2) The default key combination of CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT interferes with the key combination of 'select previous word' in any text editor.

3) Clicking on the Yod'm icon in the notification area should popup the list of windows open in other desktops, but no - no such list appears.

pottymouth

Also note that though this cubic zirconia replica only does 1 job, it does not do it well.
No background 360 image, and no rotation on the Z axis like the real deal.

Also the windows do not float away from the surfaces of the cube like on the real beryl. If you play XMMS in the real beryl, you will get a super cool effect when you start rotating the cube, because like winamp, XMMS is 3 windows tiled on each other.

final verdict, cheap cubic zirconia fake. A bad attempt to pretend you're using Linux, just like UAC.

JChung2006

Why the heck would you want a 3D rotating cube as your desktop manager? That just screams "gratuitous 3D effects" to me.

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

Speaking of Beryl

Compiz and Beryl may merge back together again under a new name: Coral.

Cool.

RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Xaero_Vincent wrote:
Compiz and Beryl may merge back together again under a new name: Coral.

The name Coral sounds bad to me. There is a 80s era lower class car model named Coral...

TimP

Xaero_Vincent wrote:

Speaking of Beryl

Compiz and Beryl may merge back together again under a new name: Coral.

Cool.

I heard that the Beryl folks just said that they would be willing to merge and that nothing further has happened yet. It would be nice to get the 3D desktop effort back on a single track, though.

WillemM

Nice trick, but it spins a little too fast for my liking. Especially when you move a window from one desktop to another.

I think this one wil last longer then the other tools I had for tiling the desktop windows or showing a 3D cube.