On Friday 17 August 2001 12:22, Will Bohan wrote:
> OK, so I did a fresh install of the entire OS last
> night to see if I could get Kmail working with
> blackbox...
>
> after the OS install I got the latest versions of
> blackbox and bbkeys and set up everything, started X
> and tried Kmail, perfect. everything worked.
>
>
> Then when I woke up this morning, I logged back in and
> tried Kmail (for my wife) and I get weird messages
> like
> couldn't create slave : can't talk to klauncher
> Cant connect to DCOPServer.
>
> has anyone else had a similar experience or know what
> I am doing wrong.
>
> Thank you,
> -Will
The problem occurs sometimes because you are running a KDE application
outside of the KDE environment. �Although many KDE apps, are stand alone,
sort of, they do require a few things from KDE like the dcopserver.
The dcopserver is the porcess that allows communication between different KDE
applications. �If a Kapp is started and the klauncher/dcopserver etc blah
blah blah are not going it must start them.
Sometimes something happens and screws the process. �Sometimes it will still
think it is running too.
try
$ killall -9 dcopserver; dcopserver &
Then restart Kmail.
Things should be nice a rosey then.
When BB becoms NetWM compliant, this should never be a problem, because then
you can run KDE as your X environment, and use BB as it's window manager. �
this way, everything for KDE is there, and you still get to use BB as your WM.
Nifty.
Andy
