Quinn Storm personally discusses Beryl
Today, we interviewed Quinn Storm, the initiator of the Beryl project.
What does Beryl do? For those of you who are only recently entering our marvelous free software world, Beryl is a window manager — it’s a program in charge of drawing window borders on your computer screen. Now, you’ll probably be saying to yourself Window borders? Isn’t that idiotic or a job for the operating system?. In Linux-land, it isn’t, because everything is modular.
As it turns out, being a window manager means Beryl is in the perfect position to exploit the latest technology, namely ubiquitous accelerated 3D rendering. Aside from drawing window borders (helped by its trusty companions Emerald, Heliodor and Aquamarine), Beryl also commands how windows are drawn on the screen. This lets Beryl implement fantastic animation effects.
If you don’t believe me, we’ve got proof: we shot a couple of videos for earlier articles, and we’ve got them right here:
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