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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DCOP without X server
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-11-30 14:44:49
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On Friday 30 November 2001 15:26, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Friday, 30. November 2001 15:16, David Faure wrote:
[snip]
> > > >
> > > > Where do you guys always get the idea from that dcop has anything to
> > > > do with Xlib or a XServer?
> > >
> > > Hmm, is this a possible reason for the confusion?
> > >
> > > coolo@sein#~>DISPLAY= dcopserver
> > > Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.

Outch. That truely explains it %-}

> >
> > Yes, and that's because of the case where the user runs multiple X
> > sessions from the same account, on the same host - IIRC we decided it
> > should have different dcop servers in that case.
> > Maybe the fix, to make dcop available without X too, is as simple as
> > "if no DISPLAY is set, then use ~/.DCOPserver_NODISPLAY instead of
> > ~/.DCOPserver_$DISPLAY" ?
>
> Yes, DCOP without dedicated DISPLAY is a session on it's own. E.g. a daemon
> without X connection can't expect to give a process on the user's desktop a
> command (at least I hope so). But e.g. a kioslave should be useable in that
> session (even though for this case it may be easier to develop from process
> forked slaves :)

Agree. Who's going to do it?

Matthias

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