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All I know is that I'm am running the KDE desktop with Beryl and it's
very cool eye candy for the desktop, KDM or not. Pardon me for being a
little behind but I have never seen or read anything about Beryl until
now so I'm still getting "up to speed" on it.

On 10/24/06, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:48, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:04 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > > The Beryl fork of Compiz has removed all GNOME dependencies. It is now
> > > > a completely stand-alone application.
> > >
> > > But you can't use it with KWin/KDE.
> >
> > Indeed you can in the same way that you use it with GNOME. beryl
> > --replace kills any already running window manager. In GNOME's case it
> > kills Metacity; in KDE's case it kill KDM.
>
> You just proved my point. It replaces/kills KWin. KWin is an essential part of
> KDE. If it's missing, it's no longer KDE that you're using, it's some hybrid.
> GNOME differs because it supports and is designed able to handle changing the
> window manager.
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