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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DCOP without X server
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-11-30 12:54:15
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On Friday 30 November 2001 13:23, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> Is there a way to use DCOP in a program, which doesn't have a connection to
> a X server? This would be intereting for daemon-like programs.

Here I go again: DCOP is based on libICE. libICE does NOT requires Xlib or a 
running X server. It is designed to work without the X Window System 
(although it happens to live in the same software archive).

>
> I'm also asking, because the KUniqueApplication constructor has this
> GUIEnabled flag. Where is the point in creating a KUniqueApplciation
> without GUI, when the X server connection is required by the DCOP stuff
> anyway?

Because it is not required.

Where do you guys always get the idea from that dcop has anything to do with 
Xlib or a XServer? 

Matthias

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