Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Stephan Hegel <stephan.hegel@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, especially Randall's hints for generalization.
Also, I've added already a few lines of code to check if dcop is
installed and executable.

Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Søndag 02 december 2007 16:38 skrev Randall R Schulz:
> > Assuming an invocation of this script is to be placed in
> > $HOME/.bash_profile, you might want to gracefully handle the case where
> > the shell is running outside of KDE. That includes on virtual consoles,
> > when connecting remotely via ssh and possible when using screen. I
> > don't know if Gnome uses dcop or something else, so it might fail there
> > and under different desktops and window managers as well.
> >
> > In short, be prepared for dcop to fail and do nothing (probably
> > silently) in that case.
> >
> > > Rgds,
> > >   Stephan.
> > Randall Schulz
>
> God morning,
>
> - how would one be able to detect if the script is being started outside of 
> KDE? Can anyone come up with a short hint ?
> - thank you!
I've made sure that the script is started via the $HOME/.kde/Autostart
folder, not in $HOME/.bash_profile or another shell rc file. This makes
sure that it is launched only in KDE and that it is launched only once,
not with every new shell.

Regards,
  Stephan.


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