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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Re: Bug#800: easy to get multiple copies of kfm running simultaneously
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-02-24 15:45:05
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If a user sets $DISPLAY to a different value from ":0" in his .<shellname>rc
he can end up with two kfms running. (Both kfm and kfmclient use $DISPLAY
to determine the display name, so changing it after kfm started breaks
kfmclient).

No fix possible for 1.1.1, and problem will disappear with konqueror, of course.

Is there a FAQ of common problems when using KDE ? As the user suggested
(below), this is something for the FAQ.

Thanks to the FAQ maintainer for adding it.

----- Forwarded message from "Frederick Polgardy Jr." <polgardy@virtual-media.com> -----

From: "Frederick Polgardy Jr." <polgardy@virtual-media.com>
To: David Faure <David.Faure@insa-lyon.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug#800: easy to get multiple copies of kfm running simultaneously
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:27:27 -0600

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, you wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:30:13AM -0600, Frederick Polgardy Jr. wrote:
>
>> It seems that kfmclient is trying to find a pid<myhostname>_0 file, rather
>> than the pid_0.0 file which was created at X/kde startup, and firing up a
>> new one.
>This right. Good analysis.
>kfm and kfmclient use the $DISPLAY environment variable.
>So it looks like the $DISPLAY env. var. changes between the kfm startup and 
>kfmclient startup.

I do set my DISPLAY env. var. in my .cshrc script.  Apparently that's
what's creating mixed messages.  I will make sure that I set it globally to
what I want, or do it in the startkde script.  Something for the FAQ. :-)

Thanks again,
Fred

----- End forwarded message -----

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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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