panel transparency KDE 4.2

[Willy Hamra]

2009/2/16 Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:panel transparency KDE 4.2
> From: Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: 02/16/2009 10:46 AM
>>
>> 2009/2/16 Colin Kern <colin.kern at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> hi, so far, the panels have always been transparent, but today, they'r
>>>> not, i rebooted 2 times, and they didn't get fixed, some ppl sugested
>>>> it's panels not catching some QT signals, but an X server restart
>>>> should solve such problem. does anyone have this as well? any
>>>> suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had a similar problem.  After changing the Plasma theme to some
>>> others and then back to Oxygen, I found that my panel was no longer
>>> transparent.  I have two monitors, and if I move my panel to the other
>>> monitor, it is transparent, but not on the one where I want it.  I
>>> fixed it once by deleting my plasmarc (I think the path is
>>> ~/.kde/share/plasmarc), but if you do that you'll start back at the
>>> default panel and widgets and have to set it up how you want it all
>>> over again.  After I did that once, it happened to me again.
>>> Restarting KDE or rebooting didn't fix it, but it did go back to
>>> transparent after a few days for reason I have yet to figure out.  I
>>> wish I could be more help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> thanks that did it. i already tried changing the theme once earlier
>> after i read something similar from the SUSE forums, but nothing
>> happened, so after i read your email, i decided to give it another
>> shot, and it DID work, thanks a bunch!
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have see it when something I did caused all of the desktop effects to be turned off. This would include transparency. Pressing shift+alt+F12 turns it back on. If ever you want to turn it off the same three fingered key combo turns it off. It is a toggle.
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thanks paul, dsktop effects were turned on this time, only panel
transparency was acting up, i got it solved anyway :)


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