[SOLVED] How to turn on composing in KDE?

I installed KDE but I do not see how to turn desktop composing fancy effects on. There is nothing like the Settings top level entry in the main KDE menu. Most likely, I did not install some package, but I cannot figure out which one. Proposals?
Last edited by Octagon (2010-03-20 09:24:07)

flamelab wrote:
Reinstall kde
pacman -S kde
This downloaded kdeaccessibility and kdetoys, but did not bring the settings back.
As the last resort, I deleted .kde4 and got the settings back. So, it could be an upgrade problem, or something I did.
So, thinking about the latter option, I let this thread to stay unsolved for a while and wonder:
Is there a normal - through menues and clicks - way to delete "System Settings" from the Computer tab of the Application Launcher?

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