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I know its a bit late for posting it but there are still newbies attacking on a wonderfully evolving new Desktop enviornment i.e. KDE 4 and i m sure many of u r still seeking help in using compiz fusion desktop effects in your newly installed KDE4.

Well the steps are really simple.Firstly u need to install all the compiz fusion packages either from the compiz fusion’s site or for openSUSE simply use the XGL repo from the community repositary. Please note that in the new openSUSE 11.0 have removed the XGL layer and has added AIGLX which means no more remembering of the enable/disable commands. The efeects can be simply turned on with the help of fusion-icon of compiz-manager and for a surprise KDE 4 makes it much easier to set programs that have to be started up every time.

To add a program to start up simply open the “configure desktop” option form the K-menu. Next open the “advanced tab” on the top and then click on the “Autostart” icon and then just use “Add Program” button on the right hand side. Now thats wht i call a good desktop experience

Now you can add the fusion-icon to the startup and every time u log in u will find its icon in the system tray which will help you simply switch between various Window manager so u can switch on/off the effects from there.

Hope u enjoy the new KDE 4 which is like a revolution in the morden day personal computing

When i first used compiz fusion with kde the way to enable was using the command “compiz ccp” (which is also there even now) but another way introduced was the compiz fusion icon which have many advantages as will be discussed further…

Previously compiz was enabled automatically but making an executable text document containg the command “compiz ccp &” in the bin folder of the user you use to log in. The compiz fusion icon which came in fedora from the start only, can be started  in the same manner by making an executable text file in the bin folder of the user you log-in into and adding the text “fusion icon &”.

Revison of the steps to do so :–>

1. Open the bin folder in the folder of the user u log into (eg: for root user open “/root/bin” for other users use “/home/user_name/bin”).

2.Create a text file in it.

3.Open the file and write in it “fusion-icon &”.

4.Save and Exit.

5.Right click on the file and in open properties for the file.

6.Under the permissions tab check is executable.

Restart and u will see the compiz fusion icon in system stray.

The greatest advantage of the fusion icon i think is that whenever compiz crashes (which happens many a times due to unstable versions) u can simply reload it by right clicking on the fusion icon and clicking on the reload window manager. Secondly you can Switch between various window decorators installed on your system (again by right clicking on the fusion icon). Thirdly you can change the window manager whenever you want (like when you are doing some serious work and the effects are irritating you). Fourthly you can also access the settings manager from it….

Please note the you need to have fusion icon installed on your system.In openSuse its available in the XGL repository.