Disabling desktop effects in Suse Leap

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I’m trying to disable desktop effects in Sue Leap 15.1, but all my searches lead me to the **ubuntu **solution, which depends on finding System Settings. I can’t find something called System Settings either in Yast or Configure Desktop. So where is it hiding?

And a subsidiary question: this doesn’t seem to be the right subforum to post this question, but what is?

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Configure Desktop (System Settings) > Display and Monitor > Compositor > Uncheck ‘Enable compositor on startup’

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Will shift to Applications: “Questions about desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.), software applications (configuration, usage, bugs, documentation)”

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I get to Configure Desktop by right-clicking on the Desktop. I then see:
Wallpaper
Location
Icons
Filter
Tweaks

But no **Display and Monitor. **I find the division of functionality between Yast and Configure Desktop (and maybe something else I haven’t found yet) very confusing.

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No, don’t right-click on the desktop. Go via KDE Menu.

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YaST is for administrator (generally system-wide) stuff. The desktop environments have their own ‘user-specific’ settings.

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Another option to disable the numerous bling in Gnome and KDE is to install and run another Desktop.

If you’re running Gnome which largely runs Gtk apps, you can try XFCE which also supports apps built that way.
If you’re running KDE which runs many apps built using the Qt frameworks, you try LXQt which is built on the same Qt Framework.

If you simply install an alternative Desktop on your machine, you should retain all the apps in your original Desktop plus your private files… And you can switch back if you find the new Desktop isn’t what you really want.

TSU

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I use Application Launcher > System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects.

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That can be used to select different desktop effects, but it doesn’t turn off/on the compositor…

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I use Application Launcher > System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor.

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I tend to disagree – from the view of the operating system (*NIX – UNIX®), the user interface is simply an application which uses system calls, running on the Kernel …

  • The user interface is not
    , integrated into the Kernel …
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Assuming that you’re using KDE Plasmatm, which isn’t handled by the openSUSE documentation – GNOME is – the Desktop documentation is here:

BTW, the openSUSE documentation (including GNOME) is here: <https://doc.opensuse.org/&gt;.

The ArchWiki page for KDE is here: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE&gt;

  • The section dealing with “Graphical problems
    ” is here; <KDE - ArchWiki.

[HR][/HR]DuckDuckGo is sometimes reasonably reliable for these searches – Alphabet (Google) tends to be not quite so reliable – not sure about Yandex or Yahoo …