[kdepim-users] kontact & xfce

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2009-12-21, Werner Joss wrote:
> I'm currently poking around with xfce and kde 4 apps, which works so far
>  quite good, but kontact (from kde 4.3.4) shows a weird behaviour:
> upon first start, I get the following:
> 
> <unknown program name>(1518)/: Communication problem with  "kontact" , it
> probably crashed.
> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not
>  receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
>  send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
>  timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "
> 
> then, on 2nd try, there is a warning message box which says: kontact seems
>  to be running already, start anyway ?
> - confirm with yes: kontact starts finally, but always shows a rotating
>  mouse cursor.
> if I then quit kontact and restart again, all seems to be normal.
> 
> can anyone here confirm this/give any hints on how to improve the situation

Can you check whether D-Bus is running when you login into your XFCE session?
E.g. by opening a terminal and running "qdbus"

The D-Bus session bus will usually be autostarted by the first application 
using it if it is not there, but most common setups launch it a part of the X 
session to make sure the respective environment variable is visible to all 
apps.

Something else which can improve usage of KDE applications in non-KDE 
workspaces is to pre-launch the KDE shared runtime early on, e.g. by running 
kdeinit4 as part of the session startup or as an autostart program.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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