Beryl window manager rocks!
Written by Walter on x/x/2007
Just stumbled upon this XGL window manager called beryl. It really blew my socks off! It runs so smooth even on my aging dell inspiron 1100 I can enjoy some nice OpenGL eyecandy like the cube rotating desktops and F8 gives me a window overview just like in Mac OS X.
Anyway to get it running in edubuntu (edgy) just follow these steps here

And here is a nice youtube video showing some beryl features: