Re: [kde] B&W desktop horror

On Monday 28 July 2008 23:28, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I finally got 4.0.99 onto my F9 box and started to explore
systemsettings. I made some change in the appearance section and very
briefly saw a patch that looked like 'accept this setting or revert?'
type message, just as the whole screen went black, with a white rectangle
where the dialogue box had been.

Clearly the way out of this is to rename a config file in
~/.kde/share/config/ so that it can rebuild, but which file?

That sounds like kwin's composite mode (i.e. "desktop effects"), so the
config you're looking for is either kdeglobals (probably not, but might
be) or something kwin, and if you want to be surgical, the setting
should be something about 'effects' or 'composite'.

Alternatively: 'pkill kwin', launch another WM, go back to
systemsettings, disable desktop effects (desktop->desktop effects),
restart kwin.

(Anyone that knows where kwin's composite option is stored in the config
should speak up now ;-).)

Thanks, Matthew. I only just now got time to sort this out, but it's fine
now.

The file to edit was kwinrc, where there is a clear [Compositing] section,
right at the beginning. Setting that to Enabled=false got me back in.

I don't want fancy effects, but I wanted to use the shading to differentiate
between active and passive windows. When I've some time to spare I'll have
another go at this, to see whether I can identify where the problem lies.

Thanks again

Anne
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