[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:44:59 schrieb Felix Miata: I've done several new installations lately, openSUSE 11.4 and Kubuntu 11.04, all on i865G video, in each case doing system updates (to e.g. 4.6.4) prior to first X start. All have been very difficult to get into anything after

[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Felix Miata wrote, On 07/07/2011 03:29 PM: On 2011/07/07 22:54 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: schrieb Felix Miata: I'm not sure if I understand this right... so the active desktop effects mess up everything, and it is even hard to start systemsettings and turn them off? Exactly. I can

[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Felix Miata writes: On 2011/07/07 22:54 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: Try Alt+Shift+F12, this toggles the desktop effects. I use it on a PC (not Another hotkey combination I'll probably forget as fast as I discovered it, or at least not remember when I need to. I know it well,

[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Duncan
Felix Miata posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:29:52 -0400 as excerpted: On 2011/07/07 22:54 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: schrieb Felix Miata: I've done several new installations lately, openSUSE 11.4 and Kubuntu 11.04, all on i865G video, in each case doing system updates (to e.g.

[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/07/07 15:53 (GMT-0600) Stephen Dowdy composed: alternatively, programmatically: kwin_compositing_active=$(qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.compositingActive) [ ${kwin_compositing_active} = true ] qdbus org.kde.kwin org.kde.KWin.toggleCompositing I prefer to state

[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups

2011-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/07/08 01:35 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: I have a dual core AMD 4850e CPU with 2.5 GHz, and on-board Radeon HD3200 video (using the open-source radeon driver). Which seems to be barely enough to run KDE4 (using six desktops and running much stuff I must admit). top gives these