Hi! I am using latest KDE on my Arch Linux machine and I have noticed that I have to check "Suspend desktop effects for full screen windows" in Desktop Effects>Advanced every time I log in. I have not installed the entire kde meta package. So I am wondering if there is any package I might be missing here. Is there something I can change in the config files that will allow me to achieve suspending desktop effects on full screen windows?

Thanks!

the option was blacklisted for intel chips when we got 3-4 driver crash bug reports for it ... per day (and we do not detect the driver in the config dialog for ati crashes and esp. mixed driver installations between fglrx/nvidia and mesa...)
also it does not actually "suspend" compositing but just unredirects the window (it bypasses the compositor, which but is still fully active)

see http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=156659 in this regard

luebking wrote:the option was blacklisted for intel chips when we got 3-4 driver crash bug reports for it ... per day (and we do not detect the driver in the config dialog for ati crashes and esp. mixed driver installations between fglrx/nvidia and mesa...)
also it does not actually "suspend" compositing but just unredirects the window (it bypasses the compositor, which but is still fully active)

see http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=156659 in this regard

Okay. Thanks for pointing that out. I had read an old article on Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... tops&num=1 that showed KDE performed very well while checking the "Suspend desktop effects on full screen windows" box so wanted to give it a shot. But thanks nonetheless.