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. Anne
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