[FreeNX-kNX] gnome/kde fade to black logout (OFF TOPIC)

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Onsdag 23 november 2005 03:21 skrev Kurt Pfeifle:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 00:30, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Both Gnome and KDE have (God knows why) decided it is cool
> > to copy the Windows logout behavior of doing the whole fade
> > the screen to black & white when popping up the "Do you
> > really want to logout" request at the end of a session.
> >
> > This causes really annoying behavior when that session is
> > running over a NX connection, desperately trying to paint the
> > whole screen over and over and bogging down my system so that
> > I can hardly get the mouse to move to click on OK.
>
> I've never seen this, ever; neither in KDE nor in Gnome. The reason may
> be twofold:
>
>  * in KDE (which I use mostly), I have learned the habit to always run
>    "kpersonalizer" on any new account I get, on any machine, or on any
>    new install. There I make sure to switch off all so called "eye
>    candy" that I do either not like, or that I suspect to over-use
>    scarce resorces when remote-GUI-ing.
>
>  * in my NX sessions I never use the logout from the K menu; I always
>    use the NX-provided mechanism: use the window menu (or the "X" icon)
>    to close the window, this lets pop up the NX dialog box to offer me
>    "Terminate, Suspend or Cancel?" the session.
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This is a GEM  (The kpersonalizer). I recall it being called automatically in 
some incarnation af SuSE - but it went away. And I never knew its name...
Same story with knetapplet (or is it just netapplet), a real gem. 

Kurt knows 'em all. Where do we mere mortals go to find a list of hidden 
pearls in KDE? (:-))




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