Assumptions:
1) You have wine and know how to use it (Running programs, winecfg, etc)
2) You have beryl running.
3) You have some amazing application that you want to run in fullscreen and in the background. (And possibly with different opacity, brightness, etc). I would recommend Dream Aquarium. thedarkmaskter has a tutorial on his blog on how [...]

Just to add to my previous post, here’s a a small snippet I made using the vidcap plugin in beryl:

As you can see, there are still some issues to work out, but it works pretty well.

I finally got a chance to play with editing beryl source code today. I read up on thedarkmaster’s blog, a tutorial about how to setup Dream Aquarium on Beryl. Only problem is, it takes up the entire screen and nothing can run above it. So, I’ve played with the state plugin within beryl to edit [...]

Got a nice taste of the wonderful world of Vista today. I tried to install it on my Raid 0 (hpt374). I was excited that it let me load the drivers from a CD instead of a floppy disk. Progress! All goes well except once I reboot it tells me the install is corrupt. Can’t [...]

Although gaim allows plugins to do a lot of different things, sometimes it’s necessary to do something that I don’t think the developers ever intended. Gaim sends out signals to plugins when certain events happen, but sometimes those signals aren’t enough.
In my upcoming facebook plugin, I need to add info to the “Get Info” dialog [...]

Finally managed to get gnome-dock working on here.
Quick screenshot:

Quick how-to:
1) Get cairo from http://cairographics.org/download. I was able to just get the source and ./configure && make && make install, though some dependencies may be required. I also believe they have a deb file which I should have probably looked into.
2) Get Gnome-dock (cairo-dock) from http://www.gnome-dock.org/trac/browser/trunk
This [...]

I’m currently writing a plug-in to integrate facebook into gaim. More details on it later, but I did manage to reach a minor milestone today:

Notice between “Logged In:” and “Away Message:” there is a “Facebook Status”? Clearly, it needs a lot of work, but it’s a start. (By the way, the above away isn’t mine. [...]

As a first post, here’s what I’m working with:

This is a fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) with Beryl.