# Screen Edges

&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;
2010-02-04
&kde; 4.4
KDE
Systemsettings
desktop
effects

Active screen edges allow you to activate effects by pushing your mouse cursor against the edge of the screen. Here you can configure which effect will get activated on each edge and corner of the screen.

Click with any mouse button onto a square and select an effect in the context menu. Edges with a black square have already an attached effect, a grey colored square indicates that no effect is selected for this edge.

The number of accessible items in the context menu depends on the settings in the module Look & Feel Desktop on the Desktop Effects page. Select Enable desktop effects to activate compositing, select the compositing type OpenGL, and then choose your favorite effects on the All Effects tab from the Windows Management group. This activates the corresponding items in the context menu.

If you are looking for the setting to enable switching of desktops by pushing your mouse cursor against the edge of the screen you can find it in the settings module Look & Feel Window Behaviour on the Navigate Through Windows page.