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[David Fraser]

Ralf Habacker wrote:

>>Indeed!
>>I'm using the new pseudo-rootless mode with kde-cygwin. However, it really
>>doesn't accomplish much if kdesktop is running, as this then occupies
>>the entire
>>window so you can't 'see through' to the standard Windows windows.
>>So I want to run kde with kicker but not kdesktop. I tried taking +kdesktop
>>off the kdeinit line in startkde:
>>- kdeinit kcminit +kdesktop +kicker
>>+ kdeinit kcminit +kicker
>>This then prevents kdesktop from loading on startup. However when ksplash
>>shows "restoring session" it still loads... The output is as follows:
>>klauncher: KLauncher::process ---> autoStart
>>kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'kdesktop' from launcher.
>>kdeinit: launch -> kdesktop
>>kio (KLauncher): kdesktop (pid 1264) up and running.
>>etc.
>>I can get around this by renaming kdesktop.dll and kdesktop.exe so that
>>this bit fails.
>>The result is very nice, a nice kicker menu on top of my windows apps.
>>But I'd like to do it without renaming kdesktop.
>>Any hints? (My kde config memory is a bit rusty...)
>>David
>>    
>>
>
>ksmserver is resonsible for loading kdesktop. Because the xserver currently does
>not support session management (may be a bug) you can replace ksmserver with
>kwin in your start script like shown below:
>
>kdeinit kcminit +kicker
>...
>kwin
>
>Then kdesktop will not be loaded.
>
>Ralf
>  
>
Brilliant, thanks. Not only is kdesktop not loaded but startup time is 
much reduced as well :-)

David