How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

[thuja]

I thought I'd see if Desktop Effects would work on my computer, so I clicked the box to "Enable Desktop Effects" in the System Settings|Desktop menu. Now, I just have a white screen. I'm perfectly comfortable using the command line and a rescue CD to fix this. But I have no idea what file contains the setting that enables and disables Desktop effects. Any help would be appreciated.

[sithlord48]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

turn on the computer boot it as normal when u get to the white screen hit alt+ctrl+1 (bring up tty0) log in there and try

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

will reset ur Xserver settings might also force kde to relook for compisite support from ur v.card

[thuja]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

Thanks, Sithlord. With your answer, I can now fix Kubuntu without a rescue CD--which makes it easier. Unfortunately, your answer did not fix my problem. I suppose I should have expressed myself better. I checked "enable desktop effects" in System Settings/Desktop Menu. I need to know the command line way to disable this.

[sithlord48]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

you answer my be in another thread.

If you want the "factory default", go into your /home/geek folder and rename the hidden .kde folder to .kde_bak and then restart the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and when you log in, it should be just like new.

it comes form here http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099568.0

now if you only have the cli interface working go back to tty0

mv ~/.kde ~/kde_bak

this will move your .kde directory (where kde saves all its settings) to a new folder called "kde_bak" (it will no longer be hidden) and give u default everything , i am sure more then you want but it should fix ur issue

[thuja]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

Cool!! I had thought about just deleting the .kde folder and seeing what happened. From your answer, I gather it should work just fine.

[kubicle]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

You can also (instead of renaming/removing the whole .kde) edit ~./kde/share/config/kwinrc, and under [Compositing] change the 'Enabled' entry to false.

One liner:

kwriteconfig --group Compositing --key Enabled --file kwinrc false

[Pillage Idiot]

Re: How Do I Disable "Enable Desktop Effects"

Fantastic, thankyou.
My daughter did the same thing on her old Toshiba TE2100, and I had to set up another account for her to use temporarily.
She is the admin, and I had to add a user from a terminal session.
This worked perfect so now i can go back to playing with my fedora and opensuse vms.
Just thought I should take a bit of a longer look at the other flavours.