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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

KDE 4 and compiz(-fusion)

Hi,

Are there any (official) reservations about using KDE 4 with compiz-fusion? Now or in perspective?

INCSlayer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-06

Posts: 296

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Re: KDE 4 and compiz(-fusion)

not really
you might have to turn off "legacy fullscreen support" under workarounds in compizconfig but that should be all

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jwcxz

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Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 239

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Re: KDE 4 and compiz(-fusion)

you might have to turn off "legacy fullscreen support" under workarounds in compizconfig but that should be all

Hmm...  I haven't.

Compiz and KDE 4 mix quite nicely.  They will also give you extreme amounts of eye candy, which is a great way to burn those extra CPU cycles. 

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: KDE 4 and compiz(-fusion)

KWin might very well obsolete Compiz Fusion, which would be disappointing for Gnome users but I think you can run KWin by itself, so that'd be cool. It's _much_ more stable in KDE 4 RC1 than Compiz, and is slowly approaching CF's number of plugins.

Try KWin before you go Compiz But there shouldn't be (too) many problems.

grassmonk

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From: Utah

Registered: 2007-11-14

Posts: 68

Re: KDE 4 and compiz(-fusion)

The only thing that I miss by using kwin instead of compiz is the cube behavior--specifically being able to middle click on my desktop to rotate the cube.  I figure that kwin will get more configurable key/mouse bindings eventually, so I can wait.  In the meantime, I just use the slide animation when switching desktops with the scroll wheel.

Also, it seems that the version of compiz in the Arch repos doesn't mesh well with KDE 4.2's plasma, as the kde4-window-decorator doesn't seem to work for me.  Haven't investigated it much, and unless I somehow decide that I need compiz instead of kwin, I'm fine for now.