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08-Aug-2004, 10:56 AM #1
Transparent menus in KDE
I am running Knoppix 3.4 on my laptop. Yesterday, I used Synaptic (a GUI for apt-get) to update KDE. Ever since then, whenever I open the start menu or right click on anything the menus are inverted colors of what is behind it. Is there anyway I can either make the menus a solid color or transparent? Also, this only happens when I am not logged in as root.
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09-Aug-2004, 08:52 PM #2
Go to the Control Center. (Start->Settings->Control Center)
Go to "Appearance and themes"->"style".
Go to "effects".

To turn off translucency:
Set "Menu effect" to "disable"

To fix translucency:
Try different values for "menu translucency type".
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09-Aug-2004, 10:30 PM #3
Thanks evilmrhenry, I've fixed KDE's translucent effects.
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10-Aug-2004, 02:25 AM #4
Actually, there is still a problem. Now when I select any icon they become the inverted color. Now, this only happens under root. How can I stop this?

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10-Aug-2004, 03:23 AM #5
Can't help you. I've got it here, and I can't get rid of it either.

Thankfully, it's just on the desktop. Konq works fine.

I'll look into it a bit more, but it doesn't look promising.
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10-Aug-2004, 11:52 AM #6
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10-Aug-2004, 12:04 PM #7
Why in heavens name are you running X under root? Talk about SECURITY ISSUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEVER RUN X AS ROOT!

For that matter, never login as root, but I digress.

Use su, sudo, etc.

Please.
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