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I'm desperately trying to figure out how to create application window
without any borders.

The X server is XFree86 version 11.0
KDE version is 3.1.3-6.2 Red Hat
Kernel version is 2.3.21-4.EL

X client is a AIX machine.

When X server in my computer accepts a request from REMOTE client, my server needs to create a window without borders. I also need to get rid of line containing "menu, minimize, maximize and close"

In motif window manager this was propably done with following line in
.Xdefaults file:
application_name*clientDecoration: none

How to do this trick in Linux running Xfree86 x-server and KDE as window
manager.
Which part I should configure Xfree86 or KDE, or both?
Does this border removal require something from client application?

Hint: kstart --type Dock is not the right answer. Configuration must be done at X server not at X client.

Pasi Niemela

The problem is that KDE has been defined to be our desktop environment. We have some custom made SW that takes advance close relation between QT and KDE.

I want to know if there is a similar way to configure KDE appearance as
there is with Motif window manager using xrdb and .Xdefaults file. See
advanced section in www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~help/downloads/
introduction/X_users_guide.pdf

X client is running in AIX machine with some other display manager than
KDE. So using kstart is out of question. And even if you try to start a
remote display with kstart "--type" option dont work. You can easily
test it by launcing a mahjongg game from a REMOTE client: "kstart --type
Dock kmahjongg --display=10.5.4.2:0.0", the result is that borders are
visible.

Pasi Niemela

Updating KDE to 3.3 might be one solution.

But still I wonder if there is a way to control the outlook of X application from server side in following situation.

X client application in macine A needs user intervention. Unfortunately macine A dont have keyboard or display. So it has to send its user interface to machine B over TCP/IP network. B is a Linux running KDE so it is capable to act as a X server.

In case there are many client machines (A) and only one server (B) it might be clever to configure appearance of user interface only once at server side.

Pasi.