The 3d desktop effects in KDE 4 are cool and all, but to me they just dont yet come close to the power of compiz-fusion. They seem a little bit too….stiff. The cube desktop seems a little bit too two dimensional and stiff. So i installed Compiz-fusion on my KDE 4.2 desktop.

The rumors arent true, compiz-fusion CAN be installed in KDE 4 easily and without many problems. I heard some places that the two would conflict but thats just not true.

I simply added the repository that I wanted (I used SID because I have more SID stuff in my PC than Lenny)

Etch:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/stable/ ./

Lenny
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Sid
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-sid/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Add this to prevent apt-get warning :

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/A42A6CF5.gpg -O- | apt-key add -

run

apt-get update

apt-get install compiz-fusion-kde

If you use apt-pinning simply add the pin version you need(i.e apt-get install -t unstable compiz-fusion-kde)

Then run

apt-get install fusion-icon

logout and log back in

Then go to System Settings > Advanced >AutoStart. Hit add Program and type in fusion-icon in the box.

Then simply run fusion-icon and choose Compiz under Select Window Manager

Enjoy