Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl

[Mark Heslep]

Naoki wrote:
> Compiz is the upstream original, Beryl is a fork.
>
> Compiz uses gconf which is pretty standard and works well with gnome
> obviously, Beryl uses flat file.
>
> Beryl has (had?) some additional plugins, but plugins are being written
> for compiz all the time as well, look at compiz-extras.
>
> Beryl has a theme manager, compiz uses cairo, metacity, or KDE themes.
>
> They look the same to me but Compiz just seems to be the better
> integrated of the two.
>
>
>   
Add:
Beryl supports dual head xinerama properly.
Compiz does not.

Compiz is preferred here otherwise, but no dual head is a show stopper.

Mark