kdeprintd cannot start child process

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 07:21, Nolan Rumble wrote:

> Can the dcop binary be executed
> from a ssh terminal or does it have to be executed from the users'
> console?

From a users' Konsole (i.e. *inside* a KDE session) dcop should not 
have any problems to automatically identify its dcopserver and connect
to it.

It's different from a SSH session. A SSH session is not part of the 
KDE session (even if one is running; is it?), but something "alien", 
coming from the outside.

See "dcop --help".

To connect to a dcop server (if one is running) from an SSH session,
I need to do these steps:

1. First, list all my sessions:
-------------------------------
 kurt at p1515:~> dcop --user kurt --list-sessions
 Active sessions for user /home/kurt :
  .DCOPserver_p15159004__20
  .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1087
  .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1103
  .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1104
  .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1105
OK, I want the second one (":1087" is the $DISPLAY used for my current
remote NX session)...

2. Second, connect to the respective dcopserver:
------------------------------------------------
  kurt at p1515:~> dcop --session .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1087 --user kurt
  kwin
  kicker
  kxkb
  kded
  knotify
  arkick
  kio_uiserver
  kcookiejar
  klauncher
  khotkeys
  kmail
  konqueror-3727
  kdesktop
  konsole-12609
  klipper
  ksmserver
  kaccess
Notice, I do not have a kdeprintd running either (because there is no 
printing going on right now).

3. Third, more dcop fun:
------------------------
  dcop --session .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1087 --user kurt kmail
  dcop --session .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1087 --user kurt kmail default 
  dcop --session .DCOPserver_p15159004_unix_1087 --user kurt kmail default checkAccount "GMX.net"

Cheers,
Kurt