From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 30 20:25:55 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:25:55 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: DCOP without X server
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On Friday 30 November 2001 05:21 am, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Probably because both 'dcopserver' and 'dcop' exit with "Aborting.
> $DISPLAY is not set." . kdelibs/dcop/dcopclient.cpp: dcopServerFile() i=
s
> the place. Display is part of filename in ~/.DCOPserver* for some reaso=
n (I
> don't quite get it ... how can one user run two dcopservers at the same
> time?).

If you run two desktops on two (remote?) displays on the same computer fo=
r the=20
same user, you will have two dcopservers for one user. $DISPLAY is solely=
=20
used to confine the communication space to a single desktop.

Cheers,
Waldo