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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: problem invoking konqueror from kmail when display redirected
From:       Mike Davison <davison () cs ! utk ! edu>
Date:       2000-10-01 17:52:27
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> What happens when you launch konqueror from the command line?

That works fine.

> KMail uses the standard 'KRun' method of opening URI's. Thi should
> probably be reproted as a bug against KRun rather then KMail.

I can't tell if this is a bug or some bit of configuration is wrong. Of 
course Krun seems a bit screwy too so perhaps there is a bug there. 

Thanks,
Mike


> On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Mike Davison wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 2 boxes, let's call them A and B, each running kde 2.0beta5. I
> > have X/kde running on A. I rsh to B, set DISPLAY=A:0 and then invoke
> > kmail. This part works fine. The problem is when I click on a URL
> > displayed in kmail it trys to launch konqueror using
> > DISPLAY=localhost:0, which fails since kmail is running on B not A.
> >
> > DISPLAY is not set in any $HOME/.* file on B. As an experiment, I tried
> > setting DISPLAY=A:0 in both $HOME/.bashrc and .bashrc_profile. No
> > change. It really looks like kmail or perhaps kde on B is using
> > DISPLAY=localhost for some reason.
> >
> > Is anyone else using kmail this way? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
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