NAME
dcopstart — Start a KDE service and return its DCOP reference
SYNOPSIS
dcopstart service [...]
DESCRIPTION
dcopstart starts a KDE service (i.e. an application that is registered
in the KDE system of .desktop files) and returns its reference for
later use in shell scripts. If the service is not scriptable via DCOP,
dcopstart returns nothing, but starts the service.
OPTIONS
--help Show usage information.
EXAMPLES
Get the DCOP reference for a newly started konqueror instance
KONQ_ID=$(dcopstart konqueror http://www.kde.org)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>
for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE ALSO
dcop(1), dcopfind(1)