While TDE on Fedora is nearly perfect now, I really miss compiz' eye candy. This seems to be a problem with dBus. Can anyone try to figure this our? I start compiz-manager and all I get is: xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:71c4 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. Checking for non power of two support: present. Checking for Composite extension: present. Comparing resolution (1600x1200) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed. Checking for nVidia: not present. Checking for FBConfig: present. Backend : ini Integration : true Profile : default Adding plugins Initializing core options...done Initializing composite options...done Initializing opengl options...done Initializing decor options...done /bin/sh: /usr/bin/kde4-window-decorator: No such file or directory Initializing wobbly options...done Initializing imgjpeg options...done Initializing resize options...done Initializing reflex options...done Initializing place options...done Initializing session options...done Initializing move options...done Initializing cube options...done Initializing screenshot options...done Initializing mousepoll options...done Initializing imgsvg options...done Initializing animation options...done Initializing td options...done Initializing thumbnail options...done Initializing workarounds options...done process 3835: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "*bool_p == 0 || *bool_p == 1" failed in file dbus-message.c line 2541. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace /usr/bin/compiz-manager: line 367: 3835 Aborted ${COMPIZ_BIN_PATH}${COMPIZ_NAME} $COMPIZ_OPTIONS "$@" $COMPIZ_PLUGINS Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Ia Ora Steel": Failed to find a valid file for theme Ia Ora Steel Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x169 specified for 0xe00008 (Configure ). Any ideas?