Kickoff menu is slightly transparent however plasma and krunner are not. I am using an ati x1950 xt with free drivers, most of the effects work just fine. Any ideas?

If you turn Desktop Effects off (Alt+Shift+F12) then back on again, is Plasma's panel transparent?

bcooksley wrote:If you turn Desktop Effects off (Alt+Shift+F12) then back on again, is Plasma's panel transparent?

Unfortunately no. I also tried different themes, only one of them was able to be transparent and it stopped sometime later. I also had the same problem with my netbook, enabling blur helped somehow and everything is OK even when blur is disabled. However I can't try that on my desktop as my driver doesn't support the requirements.

The panel should still be transparent without Blur. Try changing the Plasma theme in use, the default Air theme has it ships supports transparency.

bcooksley wrote:The panel should still be transparent without Blur. Try changing the Plasma theme in use, the default Air theme has it ships supports transparency.

Well, that's the problem. Somehow it doesn't. Please take a look at my previous messages. I am installing Arch right now, the problem may just go away.

Installed Arch Linux and the problem went away, even blur works fine. I love Arch!

Good to hear the problem is fixed. It was likely caused by an out of date cache in /var/tmp or /tmp.

bcooksley wrote:Good to hear the problem is fixed. It was likely caused by an out of date cache in /var/tmp or /tmp.

Oh, you're most probably right. How did I miss that! It happens with with major updates :facepalm:

Ehm, I do have the problem on a Debian Wheezy (while it seems to work fine on Kubuntu).

I don't really know if it is distro-related though.

I think this happens because kwin config file get corrupted sometimes.

I solved this problem by removing kwinrc file in ~/.kde/share/config and then alt+f2 and type

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kwin --replace

This way you are back to default kwin settings.

ehm, it was with plasma, but apparently I was expecting transparency where there shouldn't be (Plasma NM and other tray applets)
It's actually solved for me too