[NBLUG/talk] Disabling the window manager in KDE?

Phillip Fynan pfynan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 16:48:54 PDT 2008


On Monday June 9 2008 09:06:48 Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I want to display a partial KDE desktop on a Windows machine,* with
> KDE running on a Linux server and showing up an X11 client that's
> running on the Windows machine.  I don't want KDE to manage windows or
> the desktop, and I don't want it to start any screensavers, because
> they're already being taken care of when it starts up.
>
> I've been able to figure out most of this, but I can't figure out how
> to disable the window manager.
>
> The server is running KDE 3.1.3 on RHEL 3.0.  I know it's ancient, but
> I don't have the authority to upgrade it.
>
>
> * No, it wasn't my choice to run Windows on the desktop computer, or
> anywhere else.

How are you starting KDE, and how did you disable the stuff you didn't want?
The window manager is started by the shell script "startkde", but there are 
multiple ways to disable it.




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