B&W desktop horror

[Anne Wilson]

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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