Disabling beryl, etc.

[Sarteck]

So, I read the stickies. In one, it mentions something about disabling beryl using some tray icon. I am using Kubuntu, so do I have to worry about that? Is there any Beryl equivalent that I should worry about when using KDE?

Further, when running games, what can/should I kill/disable to make the game run faster? I've read something about XFCE or something like that being more lightweight than GNOME and KDE--would that be an optimal choice for gaming, then?

I'm sorry if the questions have been asked before, but searching just brought up a lot of unrelated stuff, and it wasn't really mentioned [that I saw, anyway] in the stickies. ^_^

Thanks in advance for the advice!

[Shatrat]

It sounds to me like you're not actually running beryl, so you don't need to worry about it.
If you are using beryl though, beryl-manager puts a gem icon in your tray that you can right click and use Select Window Manager to go to metacity or kwin or xfwm4 or whatever.

Unless you are really borderline as far as hardware goes, you shouldnt see too much of a performance difference between running metacity (gnome's window manager) and running xfwm4 (xfce's window manager) while gaming, but running beryl will slow anybody down. I dont know about kwin though.