All, Roughly 20 years ago (18 ish) compiz 6 or 7 came on the scene when KDE3 was reaching maturity and the combination was simply amazing. Then for years, due to versioning differences, python version changes, etc... it was more or less a broken mess. Having a bit of time today I put a bit of effort in resurrecting my favorite desktop combination from the X11/compiz repo using the 8.8 version -- and -- the magic is back. Still a few kinks to work out (seems to be a crash in scale addon), but on balance it works incredibly well! https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2fdde52b55c1 Even the emerald window decorations are there and work well. (I've probably got 100 custom emerald themes squirreled away somewhere) Seems that the settings tools port to python3 is mature, and the compositor works brilliantly. Fusion-icon works as well allowing switching between compiz and kwin and emerald and gtk decorators. (current gtk decorators - blah..) It's probably been 10 years since I've seen it all work together well -- and this is on Tumbleweed! I'll see what I can do to debug the scale crash. Great job devs! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.