From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdvhx-0001FO-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:49:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3AFB21C062; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 02:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7794D21C062 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 02:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3062001gxk.40 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:48:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+6hJLgKWcS+mJUBK0gZy4ShpUB7oS3u8Zdo6xVKh+JQ=; b=QiPCksO2q/wmQtGvokDwvCt2oWD+oy/DvaAVSUhF/dcUaTuqLBtupdSxkfE6ifOwSl 37hsGdvIjIRe+txTiaw03CvrAuoLTYiY/vRrVX/AIqMtuiypYZWUUtNcjsgnVp6a4Oyp BSK8UF7ZQoigCt97gB10XYBCJDUMEWN/Zmatc= Received: by 10.100.230.6 with SMTP id c6mr5299560anh.163.1309834107855; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-33.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.129.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w13sm6226538ano.23.2011.07.04.19.48.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E127B79.6080301@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:48:25 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups. References: <20110705004631.GA5225@pacific.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20110705004631.GA5225@pacific.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2f6d1210671f0e47e701562e65a052f5 Gregory Shearman wrote: > Jes=FAs J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > =20 >> 2011/7/4 Dale: >> =20 >>> I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I m= ay try >>> my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did ha= ve a >>> power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fas= t >>> enough. I think the contacts may need some cleaning. My UPS does so= me odd >>> things at times. I need a new one but they are pricey. I had forgot= about >>> the power failure issue. That has lead me down a different path now. >>> =20 >> You don't need much time. The default shortcut to disable compositing >> in kde is shift+alt+f12 >> >> =20 > You can also edit the user KDE config directly via: > > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc > > [Compositing] > > Enabled=3DTrue > > change to > > Enabled=3DFalse > > There's more than one way to skin a cat. > > =20 Ahhh, I figured there was a config file somewhere but wasn't sure what=20 it would be called. Now I know how to do it with nano. lol Thanks much for the pointer. Dale :-) :-)