major problem after enabling desktop effects (F9)...
Mike Chalmers
mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 21:06:58 UTC 2008
> I think there are two separate issues. Desktop effects in KDE4 (especially
> 4.0) cause problems with some video cards. I wasn't intending to use heavy
> effects, but I had to turn them off on this laptop, as I had silly problems
> like clicking on the clock brought up a shadow where the calendar should have
> been.
>
> The reason for your problem, though, has not been discovered. You are the
> third person I've come across other than myself. I believe it happened to me
> after a batch of updates (see Bug #454055). The only cure I've seen is to
> rename ~/.kde and restart. You can then copy back your important files from
> ~/.kde.bak/share/apps and ~/.kde.bak/share/config.
>
> Less than satisfactory answer, but at least you get to work again.
>
>
> Anne
>
> --
Anne, if you think this is the best way could you tell me how to do it
step by step? I should also mention I have no trouble logging into
Gnome.
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