Beryl is... well... I better write what the beryl-project says on his webpage (http://www.beryl-project.org/):Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users.
In fact it's just amazing. Some time ago I tried compiz, but it didn't really satisfied me, because of the confusing installation howto's I found. installing Beryl was pretty easy. Just follow these 2 Howto's:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Xgl
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Beryl
Easy, isn't it? After that I configured it a bit it looks like this:
The first screenshot shows the famous 3d cube, which represents four desktop's through which you can switch really easy - enough space for everyone.
The second screenshot shows a window picker. By pressing F8 or moving the mouse into a corner of the screen you can arrange all open windows right in front of you so you can pick one to activate it. A nice alternative to ALT+TAB. ALT+TAB shows you all open windows in a horizontal list, but you see the content of the windows in realtime. So if there is a movieplayer - like totem or mplayer - you see the movie playing in this windows list.
Beryl offes you a lot of visual effects. The best way to get more information on this is to install it or search for Beryl on YouTube.com to see it in action!
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