> hey I have a quick question about text for icon names > on the desktop: > I had a bit of a crash and somehow lost some of my old > kde settings. when I rebooted, I saw this hideous text > shadow on the names of icons on the desktop. How can I > make this go away? I can't find an option in the > Control Centre for it, and I can't find anything in > the help files. It wasn't there before. > thanks. To get to this option, right click on the desktop and select Configure Desktop. On the background settings page, there is an Advanced Options button underneath the image of a monitor - click on that, and the Background Icon Text options are about halfway down that dialog :) I guess you'd want to untick 'Enable shadow' -- Jes Hall KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc KDE FAQ: http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdebase/faq ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.