Beryl and Secondlife

I use Beryl, and while running along side SL doesn't do anything catastrophic it does take some overhead. Another thing is the current nvidia drivers can't handle running out of video memory very well.

Here's a perl script I wrote to disable Beryl temporarly when I run SL. It should go in the secondlife directory with the secondlife shellscript. It kills the beryl process and starts metacity, then when secondlife exits, replaces metacity with beryl if beryl was running before starting SL.

#!/usr/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use File::Basename;
  
  my $beryl_was_running = 0;
  my $beryl_pid = `ps --no-heading -o pid -C beryl`;
  if ($beryl_pid =~ m/^\s*(\d+).*/) {
  	$beryl_pid = $1;
  	system "kill $beryl_pid";
  	
  	# Modify the following line to use a different window manager.
  	system 'metacity --replace &';
  	
  	$beryl_was_running = 1;
  }
  
  sleep(1);
  
  my ($name, $directory) = fileparse($0);
  if (!defined($directory)) { $directory = './'; }
  system $directory.'secondlife';
  
  sleep(1);
  
  if ($beryl_was_running) {
  	system 'beryl --replace &';
  }