(solved) How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

[trintadosete]

Hi,

i was using kde4 normally until i try some new desktop effects.
After i did some changes (i cant even remember exactly what), my desktop became a black screen.

When i log on linux, after kdm and ksplah loading completelly normal, the screen become black (with my mouse pointer working).
The only way i can log into my account is using commad line, but i dont know ow i can turn off the desktop effect trough there.
Somebody knows?

thank you

[toad]

Re: How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

I'd tell kde4 to start from scratch by removing (well, renaming in fact) the kde4 folder:

mv -r ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4.bak

Do this from kde3 and you should be okay.

[trintadosete]

Re: How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

Pretty smart solution, but i am going to lost all my setting, right?!
Do you know if i can do it just with some subfolder of .kde4?

This week i am going to make some tests... any result, i post here!

[kjjjjshab]

Re: How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

There is a config file that has a true/false for desktop effects that you can edit.... but when I tried it (I had the exact same problem - I think after I turned on the login or logout effects) it didn't work as i thought... it did do something though... it turned my black screen to white

So I ended up letting it re-create the .kde.... but let me find that file... perhaps YMMV.

~/.kde-neon/share/config/kwinrc (your path will might be different if not running Neon)


[Compositing]
Backend=OpenGL
Enabled=true
GLDirect=true
GLMode=TFP
GLTextureFilter=1
GLVSync=true
HiddenPreviews=0
XRenderSmoothScale=false

I would have thought that turned to false would have done it...

All the plugins are there as well...

[Plugins]
kwin4_effect_blurEnabled=false
kwin4_effect_boxswitchEnabled=false
kwin4_effect_coverswitchEnabled=true
kwin4_effect_desktopgridEnabled=false
kwin4_effect_dialogparentEnabled=true...

[toad]

Re: How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

There is your subfolder

[trintadosete]

Re: How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

I just erased the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc and everything went back to normal

Thank you, everybody!

[Snowhog]

Re: (solved) How to turn off desktop effect by comand line in kde4

That's one way to do it.