Unable to disable GUI effects in KDE 3.5 (Fedora Core 5)
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Unable to disable GUI effects in KDE 3.5 (Fedora Core 5)
So, I have these nifty nVidia drivers installed, openGL is enabled on my GeForce 5200 FX card. I, being a sucker for eye candy, enabled my shadows and transparency.
The problem I'm having is that on the menus, there is a double shadow being drawn. So, to solve the problem, I jot right over to the Control Center, navigate to the Style section to disable the GUI effect "menu drop shadow" or something similar, but leaving the translucency/shadows through compsiting enabled.
And...nothing changes..? So, naturally, I close the Control Center, re open it, and the checkbox magically rechecked itself. [insert eerie twilight zone music]
So, I uncheck the checkbox again, hit apply, and without opening any menus or anything, pull a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to restart X. Still, K-Menu and any other menu still has that funky double shadow deal. Full reboot still won't do the trick.
Is there any configuration file I can edit, maybe even in runlevel 3 (text only) that will disable the GUI effects, or at least allow me to change their values?
I found that if I run the Bluecurve theme (which is default), it doesn't support GUI effects, so the shadows are all proper without the weird effect mentioned above. But man, it's ugly. I prefer my Qt-Curve.
Well, I'm oh so tempted to take your advice, but just as a last question before defaultland:
I found this file in my ~/.kde/share/config/ folder named '.kthemestylerc.lock'
I deleted it, and it came back. I think my problems stem from this. Any ideas?
Looks a lil fishy to me...
[edit]
Ok, so I moved the whole .kde folder to the trash. Restarted X...
First thing I tried was to change style from bluecurve to Keramik (random choice) and disable the gui effects. I shamefully was pwn3d. Still draws the menu drop shadow.
This is a bit odd. there might be a process or something running in the background that prevents me from changing these options. I definitely need a starbucks now. Coffee fixes all problems.
Seems a trivial problem, but can anyone tell me how to get rid of the 'bouncing ball' effect on the SuSE-10 cursor? I am not a noob, but this one ha me buffaloed.
Have attempted every xxx(non-animated) option plus all the ohters, with no luck. I also didn't find a config file for this (doesn't mena there isn't one).
As stated, trivial, but it bugs the pete outta me.
Chanks
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