When using kde's built-in composite manager, the shadows settings change at will and it seems to be completely random what settings I will have when I boot up.
I've tried changing them in kde's control centre and in ~/.xcompmgrrc but that also changes at random.
Using kde 3.5 in suse the shadows are all over the place and not even close to how I set them.
Using ubuntu breezy, gnome with kwin(3.4.2) as window manager, the shadows keep resetting themselves to a certain setting rather than constantly changing.
And using ubuntu dapper, gnome with kwin(3.5) as window manager,
all shadows settings stay as I set them except for the dock window setting which keeps changing and in dapper it keeps forgetting the transparency settings too.
I know that xcompmgr/kompmgr are experimental software so I can't expect perfection but if I enter an xcompmgr command to run on startup and turn off the effects in kde's control centre then the shadows stay constant every session.
Does anyone else get this or is it just me?