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.

Any tips? Bluecurve makes my eyes hurt.

You could delete the .kde directory in you home directory. This will set everything back to the default.

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.

Might be a Fedora thing. Red Hat and Suse seem to change and sometimes butcher there gui set ups.

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