Startup Crashes --------------- For some strange reason ruby occasionally needs to be compiled with --enable-pthread. Gentoo at the very least doesn't default this to using this unfortunately. Even worse, using this flag makes programs using the gnome2 bindings randomly crash so its highly unlikely it'll get into distributions / ruby by default. There is a workaround however: With the program krubyinit from korundum/bin installed it is possible to simply replace a programs shebang line with: #!/usr/bin/env krubyinit Incidently as well as majorly fixing up pthread related startup crashes, this also makes it possible for kdeinit_wrapper usage, therefore improving startup speed yet further.