[LarryMullins]

I dislike almost all desktop animations, except for sliding between virtual desktops, and an animated zoom-out to view all desktops. Particularly the first; having an animated slide between virtual desktops really helps me form a spatial feeling for where windows on different desktops are. But miss me with animated minimizing (magic lamp is the worst!), wobbly windows, etc. That sort of eyecandy is very distracting, I used it for a few days when I first tried Beryl, but never since.

Having a compositor that does desktop zoom is very nice too, although not quite in the same class of features as those eyecandy animations. Frustratingly, Kwin won't let you set a mousewheel keybind for this zoom effect, a senseless limitation. You can get around this with xbindkeys though, using config like this:

    "qdbus6  org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin invokeShortcut view_zoom_in"
      Mod4 + Super_L + b:4
    "qdbus6  org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin invokeShortcut view_zoom_out"
      Mod4 + Super_L + b:5

I have no clue how you'd fix this if you're using Kwin/Wayland..