Hello! I installed Opensuse 11.1 with KDE 3.5 to my netbook. I am trying to use compiz, but I don’t know how…I browsed through yast and found out that it is installed. I tried to install Compiz-config settings manager but still cannot see the effects by compiz. How can it be activated at startup. Please help 
for what I know compiz works only with KDE 4.0 or higher
In KDE4 you need to enable window effects from within desktop configuration. Can’t say for KDE3.5 as I have never used it. As roberto says, it may not even be available for KDE3.5.
Hi,
to activate compiz in KDE 3.5 go to
Personal Settings (Configure Desktop)>KDE Components>Session Manager
And choose compiz as your Window Manager,
HTH
I tried to change window manager to compiz but still no animations.
I also tried suggestions like editing xorg.conf for AIGLx
but still no luck. Please help
pls run compiz-manager
or
fusion-icon
right click on the compiz icon at the system tray,
select window manager option > compiz,
if it is still not working, try the reload window manager option
and for the animation settings, you can set them at the settings manager
I tried to run in terminal but some errors came up:
erwin@linux-o0l3:~/Desktop> compiz-manager
which: no fusion-icon in (/opt/kde3/bin:/home/erwin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin)
Checking for Xdmx: not present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27ae (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x576) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display “:0.0” already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
/usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display
do i need to install compiz-fusion? I only see “compiz-fusion-plugins-main” in yast, and it is installed…what other components am i missing at?
Thanks for your patience 
erwin@linux-o0l3:~/Desktop> compiz-manager
which: no fusion-icon
Please install fusion-icon package with yast or zypper,
it’s a python script to manage compiz,
And then try to run it from terminal
I got compiz working in my KDE 3.5,
here’s the list of my compiz packages, you could compare them with yours,
and install the missing ones,
rpm -qa | grep -e compiz -e fusion
python-compizconfig
libcompizconfig
compiz
compizconfig-settings-manager
compiz-kde
fusion-icon
libcompizconfig-backend-kconfig
compiz-manager
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
compiz-fusion-plugins-main
HTH
I got fusion-icon installed and some components, tried running compiz-manager and got the icon on the panel…However, still does not work. When I change window manager or reset it, my windows messes up and had to restart…got some more ideas?
Thanks again for your patience…
Hi,
pls run this from the terminal:
simple-ccsm
and check the enable effects,
if the problem persists pls read this page,
Compiz Troubleshooting - openSUSE
Goodluck
i followed a link to compiz troubleshooting…it has a 1-click installation of compiz-fusion, but it is kde 4.2…is there any 1-click installation of compiz-fusion for kde 3.5? I only see compiz-fusion-plugins in yast…
Try this link
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.1/compiz-kde.ymp
But before updating pls remove the previous compiz with yast, search and remove everything related to compiz & remove it’s setting, by running this:
rm -rf ~/.config/compiz
and after the installation,
run Desktop Effects(simple-ccsm) application to enable/disable Compiz
Good luck