Before Vista’s Flip 3D, there was Beryl, “a compositing window manager for the X Window System. It is a fork of Compiz.” Video after the jump.

Like Compiz and unlike traditional window managers, Beryl delegates the drawing of window borders to a separate process, called a window decorator. There are currently three of them, all named after varieties of beryl, although only Emerald is currently considered stable

Before Vista’s Flip 3D, there was Beryl, “a compositing window manager for the X Window System. It is a fork of Compiz.” Video after the jump.

Like Compiz and unlike traditional window managers, Beryl delegates the drawing of window borders to a separate process, called a window decorator. There are currently three of them, all named after varieties of beryl, although only Emerald is currently considered stable

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