Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Last time I tried to switch back to nv, i basically couldn't. So if > that is going to be a suggestion, could some one let me know how to > disable desktop effects from the command line? KDE simply won't > startup with nv last time i tried. edit ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc to contain: [Compositing] Enabled=false (or remove/rename kwinrc) -- Rex