gkrellsun doesn't save its settings, so when you restart X you get the defaults 1. right click on the UV Sun (blue sun) to bring up the settings panel 2. change some settings (choose the Orange Sun for example) and save 3. exit and restart X Result: You will see the UV Sun instead of the Orange Sun Version 0.9.1 (which I previously used) didn't have this problem. Also, 0.9.1 and 0.12.2 use different slots even though they have some overlapping files: /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins/gkrellsun.so is the same for both packages. [ebuild R ] app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.5 +X +nls +ssl 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-plugins/gkrellsun-0.12.2 0 kB Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org http://gentoo.osuosl.org" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync2.ro.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl dts eds emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd geoip gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 jikes jpeg junit lcms libcaca libwww lua lzo mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre png python quicktime readline rtc ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xchatdccserver xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Everything now uses slot 1, 1.0.0 fixes the saving issue for me.