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Beryl magic: watching TV while installing software

Posted by Rudd-O at Apr 23, 2007 12:19 PM | Permalink

Filed under: Beryl, Linux, 3D, user interfaces

Is Beryl practical? You bet it is:

This is a screenshot of me watching TV. You'll notice that a faint overlay shows up above the TV. This overlay is the software installer displaying installation progress. Thanks to this, I don't have to interrupt neither work not pleasure to monitor long-running tasks:

Watching TV while installing software

How did I do this? I just dragged the installer window above the TV window, then I depressed the Alt key on my keyboard and pulled the mouse wheel down a few notches. Instant see-through window!

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