Well, this is a screencast of me using Beryl on openSUSE Factory with some effects enabled. Let me talk you through them ...

This is creating and closing a window with the Fire/Burn effect.

This is minimising and unminimising a window using the Magic Lamp effect.

This is fading and unfading a window using an effect, the name of which escapes me.

Here's the instructions on how to get and use Beryl. I'm using it with the NVIDIA drivers and starting automatically. You don't need to add beryl to the startup programs - beryl-manager takes care of that for you.

Stopping the screencast recording now so I can save it and reference it below before submitting.

See the movie here (Ogg Theora, 1280x800, 1.8M)