I was able to turn off Plasma with Kevin&#39;s instruction (editing plasma.desktop in share/autostart). But there is a problem in that KWin will not repaint the background.  I set the background color with xsetroot -solid blue, but as windows are dragged around Kwin will not fill the windows path with blue.  <br>
<br>I think there is a environment variable to resolve this kwin painting issue.  Is this true, can some tell me what it is ?<br><br>Thanks again,<br>David<br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Kevin Krammer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kevin.krammer@gmx.at">kevin.krammer@gmx.at</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tuesday 24 March 2009, David Boosalis wrote:<br>
&gt; Can someone tell me from what script plasma starts up from.  We wish to<br>
&gt; disable it for our embedded device.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks in advance for any help<br>
<br>
</div></div>Plasma Desktop is autostarted through the standard autostart mechanism, i.e,<br>
there is a respective .desktop file in one of the directories for that<br>
service type, see<br>
 % kde4-config --path autostart<br>
<br>
Removing that file or an additional entry<br>
Hidden=true<br>
<br>
in the [Desktop Entry] section should theoretically prohibit the autostarting.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Kevin<br>
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