-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 20:08, John Gay wrote: > I am looking for someone who can tell me a > bit about DCOP, there are no man pages or any other info on my > system that I can find. Where should it be started, what program or > script is responsible for starting it and why it should stop > working?
DCOP is a protocol that allows KDE applications to communicate with each other and with shell scripts. You can do pretty much everything with DCOP that you can also do in the GUI (at least it's supposed to work that way). For example, you can initiate a Mail check in KMail using DCOP. I don't know exactly what for but programs need to register with a DCOP server that runs on your machine: [ ps -afux output ] magnus 2291 0.0 1.3 15076 5140 ? S 11:35 0:03 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid I _*think*_ that KDE programs cannot start if they can't connect to a DCOP server. And (as I've just found your message in my trash ...) this seems to be the case for you. NORMALLY, though, KDE applications that don't find a running DCOP server start it automatically so obviously something with your configuration / install of the DCOP server has gone quite wrong. Does that help you? Otherwise, please look into your DCOP configuration and maybe provide some more detail so that I can look into it more closely. Also, your first E-Mail would be nice (I can't find it in the list archives and it's already purged from my trash folder). Sorry that nobody answered your question on this list, please don't let that discourage you. KDE 2.2.2 is so cool (really) that it's worth the pain to install it (I had some problems, too). - -- - -M - ------- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------ Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8AU34UIvM6e6BgFARAmRbAJ48froelukERiV7itAk1vXX1bCPwgCglZrR k4wfTxnNYu4datdtjXVploQ= =e878 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
