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[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This. Fucking this. Wobbling windows were around in the early days of Ubuntu's existence which was a long ass time ago and it was probably possible to get them even before that. Surely they've figured out a good way to make them work without fucking up your entire system by now.

Edit: oh, turns out KDE already has that option on my system.

Edit 2: Shit. How do you unfuck KDE? Asking for a friend.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 months ago

KDE always gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Like, set the transparency of all windows to 100% and wonder why the system is fucked, or whatever haha.

Working blind, and from memory (I didn't check my system): depending on your system, there will be a kwin config file in .local or .config or .kde or similar in your home directory. Assuming you have console access, df -h | grep kwin will probably find it for you. Take a peak in the file first to make sure it's reasonable that this is the right file to nuke. Rename it something like kwinrc-backup and restart KDE.

[-] Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Not OP (OC? Not the person you were helping, you get what I mean), are you sure you meant df -h? fd -H seems more useful for to me when trying to find a specific file in a dotfolder, though even that didn't work on my system. fd ignores ~/.config by default, so you need to use fd -u (which is an alias for fd -I -H) to find the correct files.

Anyways, from your description it seems like the correct file would be ~/.config/kwinrc, which exists on my system.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

It's probable there are better ways at finding things, but sometimes these commands are sort of muscle memory and I don't even think to explore what else is out there once I have something that works for me ;)

It's hard to teach an old dog like myself new tricks. I still think git was a mistake and long for centralized revision control systems... Because that's what I grew up with ;)

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Normally, you shouldn't be able to set the transparency to 100% anymore. I remember reporting it as a bug years ago and it getting fix a bit afterwards.

I've always had my desktops set so that I could scroll on the windows borders to set the transparency. It's very convenient.

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