payasam Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Mandriva 2009, Gnome. I do not like shadowed type on the desktop but can find no way to turn it to normal. Help appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual effects -> None Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) Thank you, Coverup, but there's no Visual Effects to be found. Edited March 16, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Thank you, Coverup, but there's no Visual Effects to be found. My only experience with Gnome is based on Ubuntu, Visual Effects were always found under Appearance :D. Are there any compiz related options menu in Mandriva control center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Try with; Â metacity --replace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Will look around in MCC, Coverup. What does your code do, AI? I prefer actions to be reversible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) I'm not sure, but I think Mandriva have compiz by default (shadows etc.).  Metacity is Gnome original window decoration, by running; metacity --replace you'll switch compiz out with metacity. You can reverse it by; compiz --replace   If you want it gui, to switch it on and off, you can use fusion-icon.   For KDE users it's kwin --replace instead. Edited March 16, 2009 by Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) payasam: are you referring to the shadow behind text on the desktop? i.e. icon names? Edited March 16, 2009 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 A more mandriva-like course of operation would be to run drak3D (ie: Configure 3D in MCC), and turn 3D off. Â Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) Thank you, AI. I understand and will give it a go. Â That's right, tyme: the names under the icons. Â Thank you, Yves. If the metacity trick does not work, I'll go to drak3D. Â [No luck] metacity --replace appears to have done nothing but hang all the applications running so that I had to do a hard re-boot, and turning off 3D effects in drak3D made no difference. Edited March 16, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 AFAIK, the text under icons on the desktop has nothing to do with 3D effects. Likely, the appearance of the text is part of the desktop theme, so you might need to try other themes. I'am running Baghira for KDE and kinda like shadowed text on the desktop:-) But then, it's easy to turn it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Coverup, suit yourself. For me, having to look at shadowed text all the time is a major Problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Coverup, suit yourself. For me, having to look at shadowed text all the time is a major Problem. I was just saying that because I like the shadowed text on the desktop, I found a way to customize the theme I use to add this feature. So you should be able to find a way to customize your theme to turn it off, or switch to some other theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 I am on the only theme I like, Coverup, but I haven't yet found a way to customise it exactly to my taste. It is eminently reasonable to suppose that if you could add shadowed type, I can remove that [sorry] abomination. Obviously I haven't looked hard enough. Thank you for pointing me in what may well be the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 18, 2009 Report Share Posted March 18, 2009 (edited) payasam - I'm not sure if it's removable, but it's certainly not a 3d desktop thing. It's a Nautilus setting, most likely - I would check in the GNOME Configuration Editor (which is a pain to navigate). Sorry I don't have specifics. Edited March 18, 2009 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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