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Enabling effects on KDE 4.4.x

KDE on my Debian testing has suddenly lost the ability to activate desktop effects. On systemsettings the message displayed was the following:

compositing is not supported on your system

I’m not a big fan of special effects like exploding windows, but plasma themes are often ugly without effects and I like to have shadows surrounding windows.
So, I have found that this is a known bug and can be solved by simply editing .kde/share/config/kwinrc. You will find this line:
CheckIsSafe=false
which you should change into:
CheckIsSafe=true
This will make you able to enable desktop effects in systemsettings again.

This experience allowed me to switch back to fluxbox again, which has been a most pleasant diversion.

For the sake of completeness, I have the following video card:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
and I am using proprietary drivers, but I have read about people having the same problems with other gpus too.

2011
04/27
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How to write in Japanese on Debian Squeeze and KDE

I think that maybe this is the simplest way to write in Japanese on my Debian box.

aptitude install ibus-anthy
You can install other input methods for other languages too.

Add the following lines toyour .bashrc
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

Launch ibus-setup from a shell, then configure the input methods and the other options. Logout from your graphical session and login again. You should be able to change the input method in your applications now.

2010
12/26
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