Hi.

Really liking KDE 4.3 on Arch Linux- its really nice.

Tried the Kubuntu 4.3 packages for Jaunty and it seemed really buggy....

I really like the desktop effects but always find myself turning them off as I like to play games, most games become unplayable with desktop effects enabled (Prey's frame rate drops from 60 fps - 20 fps..)

Is there a command line way of disabling desktop effects?

That way I can make a script which disables the effects before starting the game then re-enables them afterwards.

It would be good if there was some way KDE automatically detected that it was running a (fullscreen) game and automatically disabled them ... Maybe in the future,,,

There's a shortcut Shift+Alt+F12 is the default.
A plasmoid is there, too, called "Toogle Compositing"
and the command is:

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qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.toggleCompositing

Thanks for that !

One small thing I have noticed though : when compositing has been enabled (maybe just desktop effect - with or without composite enabled) the screen renders slightly darker - even when you then disable composite..

This also occurs when using compiz too - perhaps it is nvidia related.

Any way its not really an issue, although to get full brightness I have to disabled desktop effects and restart to get full brightness.

Cheers