DCOPServer

[Joe]

Better late than never ...
dcop appears to be a part of kde.  I saw references to it at kde.org 
under advanced tips and tricks (or some heading like that).  They were 
using it to detect if kde was running, etc.

Joe

green_man wrote:

> What the hell is a DCOP server, and how do I enable it from a boot 
> prompt ??
>
> After log in, when KDE is starting, I get this message:
>
> There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.
> The message returned by the system was: Could not read network
> connnection list /home/demo/.DCOPserver_demolinux_:0
> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running.
>
> The only option is to click OK, which dumps me back to the log in screen,
> so it must be a boot option.  I chose Shutdown - Reboot.
> On a reboot, what key[s] do I press to get the boot: prompt to stay up ?
> It flashes right by, apparently the time out is set for 0 seconds.
>
> What key combination kills Xwindows ?
> I don't mean to kill a particular window [Ctrl Alt Esc], I want to 
> stop the
> whole shebang, to get to text mode. Sort of the opposite of "startx" from
> a command line. I thought it was Ctrl Alt Backsp, but that shuts the 
> whole
> system down.
>

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