Hello I’m new to the forums and I been using Blender for several months in WIndows XP. Recently I’ve been learning Suse Linux 10.0 and I installed Blender in it and it just run fine but I don’t know how to minimize the Blender window in KDE cause the normal KDE windows buttons dissapear when Blender run. I looked in the documentation but haven’t been able to find anythings thht tells me how to do something so simple yet. How is it done, a key combination perhaps?
You need to edit the menu that starts Blender and append a “-w” (with no quotes). I’m not sure how to edit the SUSE menus, but I think it’s relatively easy – but I use Ubuntu now, and my brain has forgot the other stuff.
agreed, it is very easy to do with KDE on SuSe… just right click on the KDE icon on your menubar, then go into the menu editor. Find your application and get that -w appended to the startup path. (the Command: form entry I think)
Or, what I do is just run it from a Konsole shell. “blender -w”
(actually /opt/blender/blender -w cause I put the executable stuff down in my opt dir)
You never know when you will need that command window to figure out why something isn’t working quite right (Python and Yafray come to mind first)
Thank you. That did the trick. Got the KDE bar at the top with Blender now. In my case this was my path: ‘/home/davidone/bin/StandAloneSoftware/Blender/blender’ -w because with Blender you can just unpack it in any directory of your creation and click the icon and run it (I call that Stand Alone Software, and run it from a directory that I call like that, a practice I do from Windows for software that runs without installers) but the point is that adding a space and the -w after the apostrophe does the job (at least in my Linux that is Suse 10.0 with KDE). Also edited the path of a shortcut icon I had for Blender on the desktop by clicking the righ mouse button over it and clicking properties and then going to the Application tab. Now the desktop shortcut also runs Blender with the KDE bar. Yafray running fine also. Thank you again guys.
I prefer to work in fullscreen mode so what I do is just push “F12”, it causes a render but you just turn the rendering settings low if your working on something complex. It still lets you use Blender in fullscreen mode and you still get to use Firefox and other programs too. 
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For me (Fedora 6, Gnome), I can just alt-tab my way out, or ctrl-alt-arrow key my way to a different workspace. Another option is canceling the render by pressing “Esc” once (hitting it again brings Blender back on top).