Did you try to run
kdeinit +kded
first ?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:28:23AM +1100, Don Sanders wrote:
> Before the KIO merge I could use kioslaves (say by using kioslavetest or
> whatever) from kdelibs/kdebase in the HEAD branch while running KDE 1.1. I
> did have to run dcopserver and kded manually first but it definitely worked.
> 
> Does that make sense? I used KDE 1.1 as my desktop and ran a few HEAD branch
> apps from within it.
> 
> It doesn't work since the KIO merge, this makes it much harder to for me to 
> get work done. Is there any possibility of getting this to work again?
> 
> BFN,
> Don.

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