Re: [kde] B&W desktop horror

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 20:16, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
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.

Cool, glad you got it fixed.

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.

In my experience, turning on certain effects seems to break things. I
have desktop effects turned off, as they don't (currently) seem stable
enough for regular use.

Note that you can also turn on "inactive window color effects"
(Appearance->Colors).

Pros:
- Far more flexible than the WM effect; you can change the color, do
things like dim the text, etc.

Cons:
- The repaints apparently bother some people
- Because it's using the color scheme instead of a WM effect it's "less
pervasive" (though, feel free to gripe about particular apps you'd like
to see use it better ;-) ), and only works on Qt applications.

I'll certainly give that a try, thanks. At the moment I'm struggling to get
it back to folderview, which I only had for a few minutes :-) I've edited
plasma-appletsrc to plugins=folderview but when I log in again it is back to
desktop :-(

Anne
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