How to turn off use of 3d/Visual effects in KDE?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:19:41PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> 
> > I have a newly installed ubuntu 9.10 system where I have discovered
> > that I need to turn off 'Visual Effects' in Gnome to prevent the video
> > drivers crashing (Intel i915).
> > 
> > How do I do the same thing in KDE?  I have installed the KDE desktop
> > on the same system but it crashes in exactly the same way that the
> > Gnome desktop did until I turned off Visual Effects in Gnome.  There
> > isn't a "KDE Failsafe" so I can't do it by using that.
> > 
> 
> I think the kde 'control panel' is called systemsettings so calling
> that command in a non-compiz Gnome should let you alter the KDE config.
> It might be called something like kde-systemsettings, though. I've no
> KDE here to have a play with.
> 
Aha, you're right, systemsettings it is, thank you.

> Else I'd be tempted to see what's in places like /usr/bin/kde*
> 

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Chris Green