Call me picky, but I’d actually like to be able to see my window contents.

I just tried Beryl from the official beryl repositories for Debian; and while it started fine, the window contents weren’t redrawn. Also memory usage skyrocketed. It was totally unusable, I couldn’t get Beryl to draw the window contents properly (and yes, I also tried a clean login into Beryl right away.)

I’ll try tweaking it some more, but so far it’s just not working at all.

[Update: after an upgrade to Xorg 7.2, beryl displays window contents. I’ll give it another try. However my experience with compiz and beryl so far was rather disappointing: not worth the hassle. I also clarified above paragraph: it’s beryl for Debian from the repos as beryl-project.org]

[Update: I can stand Beryl for at most 5 minutes… it has rendering artefacts with window shadows (so they are very common), and I consider most of the animations just to be pointless. Configurartion of Beryl is hell… I’m back to my trusty openbox which just totall gets out of my way and lets me do my work.]