And the fun continues...

I have desktop effects in KDE 4! For a while, it seemed like no matter what I tried, kwin gave the following error:

Failed to create Scene object. Compositing disabled

The solution was to turn off Xinerama and switch to using TwinView. I can't say that I'm thrilled with that, but since I only have two monitors on one video card at the moment, it does work.

Oh, and I'm learning to like the yum-skip-broken plugin... It makes yum a fair bit slower than usual, but a slow (but working) "yum --skip-broken update" is better than a failed "yum update".