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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: does kdeinit4 need $DISPLAY ?
From:       Stefan Majewsky <majewsky () gmx ! net>
Date:       2009-09-20 19:27:39
Message-ID: 200909202127.39760.majewsky () gmx ! net
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Am Sonntag 20 September 2009 20:53:25 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Em Domingo 20. Setembro 2009, ās 20.33.21, Martin Koller escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My backup program (kbackup) can also run as a cron job, so there is no
> > KDE session running.
> > When it wants to start a KIO Job (I think it comes from KIO::listDir()) I
> >  get the following error:
> > kdeinit4: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> > kdeinit4: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> > kbackup(15825): : couldn't create slave :  "Cannot talk to klauncher: Not
> > connected to D-BUS server"
> >
> > Does that mean KIO needs $DISPLAY ?
> 
> Yes, and D-Bus.
> 

D-Bus is something I can understand. (Although this shows a design failure in 
D-Bus: There should be something like a "user bus" that is activated by the 
dbus-daemon once a program running with the privileges of this certain user 
needs it.)

But why would KIO need a GUI?

Greetings
Stefan

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