Re: [kde] B&W desktop horror

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

We'll see how it goes, but I think this is going to suit me fine, thanks.

Cool :-). (I was thinking, this feels a bit like RGBA, a great idea that
doesn't work well because no one has pushed it into actual use yet...
Anyway, I use it and have no complaints :-), honestly I never understood
the "flicker" complaint.)

--
Matthew
FOSS: Giving people the cage and it's blueprints, gratis. The "L" matters.

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