Comments on: Linux looking good, behaving badly http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/ Brian Pontarelli Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brian Pontarelli http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3765 Brian Pontarelli Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:47:25 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3765 Ah, Beryl is probably why things are running fine for you. I'm running compiz, which is pretty unstable right now and has many more issues than Beryl does. It looks like they are merging back into a single project, so hopefully the next Ubuntu version fixes a lot of these issues and updates to compiz 0.5+ (hopefully the next major release of compiz and beryl merge). Ah, Beryl is probably why things are running fine for you. I’m running compiz, which is pretty unstable right now and has many more issues than Beryl does. It looks like they are merging back into a single project, so hopefully the next Ubuntu version fixes a lot of these issues and updates to compiz 0.5+ (hopefully the next major release of compiz and beryl merge).

]]> By: Beemo http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3764 Beemo Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:56:19 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3764 Interesting post. I've got Beryl running on my Feisty machine at work with GDesklets and no problems. The backgrounds are transparent so the wallpaper shows through, and when I switch desktops they float out just like the other windowed applications do, and don't steal focus. Now that I think about it, JRE 6.0 runs fine with Beryl too. Hmmm. I'm new to linux, and am quite fond of Ubuntu so far, but maybe I've just been really lucky! Interesting post. I’ve got Beryl running on my Feisty machine at work with GDesklets and no problems. The backgrounds are transparent so the wallpaper shows through, and when I switch desktops they float out just like the other windowed applications do, and don’t steal focus. Now that I think about it, JRE 6.0 runs fine with Beryl too. Hmmm. I’m new to linux, and am quite fond of Ubuntu so far, but maybe I’ve just been really lucky!

]]> By: Brian Pontarelli http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3656 Brian Pontarelli Wed, 09 May 2007 23:31:54 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3656 Yeah, I would definitely wait a bit. Hopefully Ubuntu will be picking up Compiz 0.5, which seems to fix a lot of the focus issues. However we need to wait until JDK 7.0 or JDK 6.0 update 2 until the dialog issues get fixed. The hack I found online that requires recompiling part of AWT doesn't work very well. Seems like a race condition to me. Yeah, I would definitely wait a bit. Hopefully Ubuntu will be picking up Compiz 0.5, which seems to fix a lot of the focus issues. However we need to wait until JDK 7.0 or JDK 6.0 update 2 until the dialog issues get fixed. The hack I found online that requires recompiling part of AWT doesn’t work very well. Seems like a race condition to me.

]]> By: Alex http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3651 Alex Wed, 09 May 2007 19:23:59 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/05/08/linux-looking-good-behaving-badly/#comment-3651 Thanks for the info Brian, I was actually just about to start messing with Beryl on my Ubuntu box but now I think I'm going to wait a bit. Hopefully it will smooth out with time. I think there tends to be enough focus problems with X in general (especially with Java)... any more would make me pull my hair out. BTW, I saw you speak at NJFS in Minneapolis and even talked to you about Ubuntu very briefly after one of your sessions. Keep up the good work on the blog! Thanks for the info Brian, I was actually just about to start messing with Beryl on my Ubuntu box but now I think I’m going to wait a bit. Hopefully it will smooth out with time. I think there tends to be enough focus problems with X in general (especially with Java)… any more would make me pull my hair out.

BTW, I saw you speak at NJFS in Minneapolis and even talked to you about Ubuntu very briefly after one of your sessions. Keep up the good work on the blog!

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