Hello

I just installed Sabayon 3.2 (which is Gentoo compatible) with Beryl 0.1.2 (yes there is a new one out) and KDE 3.5.5.

I appear to have two choices:

1) i can create .xinitrc and tell it to startkde
Benefit - desktop interaction is speedy
- running apps from the console is near instant
Detriment - can not interact with kicker

or
2) i can not have said .xinitrc
Benefit - not sure, but the kicker doesn't seem to die as definitly
Detriment - starting programs by clicking on the icon (and running from the konsole) takes ages. starting KDE from the kdm takes about a minute (.xinitrc alternative ~5sec). If i have gkrellm running i can see one of the core's firing up at close to 100% load, before anything happens visually. And 5 seconds is an optimistic estimate.

So anyway, Sabayon seems to have done some odd things about inittab, with 3 being their fully GUI run level, which in itself is a little odd, but not a drama, for ease of not going to a lot of trouble, i just chmod'ed /etc/init.d/xdm to 000 and that stops beryl from starting up, given the 10 min before work i had to read the script it is safe to say that it is not intuitively obvious how it starts beryl, and hunting through configs i have yet to find where it starts. Never the less, doing the xdm disable followed by a startx with the ~/.xinitrc starts KDE without beryl, and re-enabling xdm does KDE with beryl. So i know the rough execution path to follow to "fix" the beryl starting issue.

So finally my question:

- Does anyone know where to look for Beryl configuration and the like on Sabayon 3.2?
- Does anyone have a link to a good source for Beryl stability enhancing tips?
- Does anyone know how to quickly disable / enable Beryl as the window manager

PS, i will look into 0.1.3 tonight and see if it makes my interactivity ... interactive, or if i can find something to easily disable / enable it, and post here if i find anything.

Googling has not been working for me as yet.

Cheers

0.1.3 fixed a few things, nothing major in my eye's but it seems a little better round the edges.

the speed issue thing can be resolved by adding fc-cache -f to the /etc/rc.local

the menubar (kicker) becoming unresponsive i tracked down not to being .xinitrc related BUT instead not being the first logon. eitherway it can be fixed by running a killall on kded

both of those solutions (and getting beryl 0.1.3 required fixes) are available from the forum at sabayon.org

Cheers