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It's possible that what I'm trying to do is impossible but I thought I'd check.

I have a FreeBSD server with KDE installed on it that I am access from my Windows XP-based laptop. I have Cygwin Xorg installed on my laptop have a lovely little script where I click on an icon, it automatically connects to the FreeBSD server via SSH2, and then in my .bash_profile I have the following entries so that I get a nice KDE toolbar at the top of my Windows desktop:

kdeinit +kicker &
kwin &

This works great! It's super convenient to have the KDE toolbar on my desktop because then it's like a dashboard and I can launch and work on the server seemlessly.

The one problem I have is with launching applications with kdesu. With what I have right now, kdesu crashes and therefore I can't run any applications as root. The one thing that seems to fix this is to launch ksmserver on the server. THEN kdesu works without crashing however it also means that I get a KDE desktop, which I don't really want.

Does anyone know how I can make this work so that I can run kdesu without having to resort to a full desktop? I have to admit - I'm getting a little spoiled just having the toolbar there. It looks great and works brilliantly!