This aero stuff fuzzes the words so they are illegible. At least the aura around some of the letters makes it possible to tell that letters are there. It is the black-on-black stuff that is really difficult to read.
My real need is to get the panel to hide itself again. Iāve right clicked on the panel in just exactly the right place where I can get a menu that includes, āPanel Optionsā and that, in turn, includes āPanel Settingsā. I think I am on my way and all that happens is that the panel gets bigger and contains a plus sign, padlock, wrench and a red X. I am guessing that thereās some wording in there, too, but with black-on-black lettering it is a bit hard to guess it out. I did try clicking the wrench, but that is all black on black, too, and the icons have no real meaning. Somebody didnāt seem to have their usability thinking cap on. Can anyone tell me if I need third from the bottom or third from the top to get my panel to auto-hide? Thank you!!
Sorry. Itās KDE and there seems to be a lot of translucency which I thought came in vogue with MicroSoftās aero stylings. Iāve searched for āpanelā in system settings, but that does not seem to configure the KDE panel. Maybe there is some āthemeā or another that will give me distinguishable text so I can do what needs doing?
AH-- Itās called āplasmaā in the KDE world. aero/plasma same thing. With it, I now seem to have a chameleon calculator running wherein I can only see a few of the digits. Itās really cool, but not really useful.
Part of the answer: The auto hide is the fourth from the bottom item and the icon is a CRT terminal. All I needed to do was add a dark background, turn off the second monitor, turn off all the room lights and then there was enough contrast to make out the phrase, āAuto-Hideā in the menu. I still think that maybe defaulting to almost completely black letters on a completely black background maybe is not such a good idea. lol!
I had stumbled upon the right click thingey, but didnāt find anything. After your post, I searched through much more carefully. Still didnāt find it. I was able to use it to change desk tops to darken the wall paper. Anyway, my version of āDesktop Settingsā has three choices: Wallpaper, Activity and Mouse Actions. None of them make any reference to a Desktop Theme. How about a ~/.kde/ā¦ file to just edit with vi?
āPersonal Settingsā ā āGeneralā ā āAppearanceā ā āStyleā ā āWorkspaceā & pick one.
āAir openSUSEā got me a light grey background. My only remaining problem now is that my
apps (like calendar and calculator) have completely invisible backgrounds so they look like
floating numbers. Very hard to read against anything but the plainest backgroundsā¦
Thank you for your suggestions!! Regards, Bruce
then once you can see what you are doing getting the second part will be much easier.