Dear all,
is it possible to kick off Dolphin from terminal emulator inside KDE? If yes, how?

regards,
ethereal1m

Run the following command: "dolphin"

I got this:

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<unknown program name>(6690)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "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."

<unknown program name>(6689)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.


what does this mean?

Which terminal emulator are you using and how is it being launched? It should work fine if you run it from KRunner...

This indicates that Dolphin is unable to reach the D-Bus user session bus, thus making it unable to interact with KDE services such as KRunner, KDE Daemon and KLauncher.

i use Konsole. Oh, I just realized that that error comes when I'm su as root. How can I kick dolphin using kdesu?

when i do "kdesu -c dolphin", I got:

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No protocol specified
kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0


I don't understand this.

thanks

ok, i got this,
i just do

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kdesu dolphin


in regular user environment

Usually D-Bus will launch a user session bus if one isn't running, so this issue shouldn't happen. Try switching to root using "su -" instead...

I try using "su -" and kick dolphin from there, but got:

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<unknown program name>(5347)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
"

<unknown program name>(5346)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.


Similar to previous error but not identical

It looks like your distribution doesn't copy over the X authentication information... is $DISPLAY set?

set to

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localhost:0.0


Its probably an authentication error, copy /home/user/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority before trying to run Dolphin.

I copy .Xauthority user to /root/ but still got the same error....

Unfortunately I don't know anything else regarding X authentication.... Try contacting your distribution for further information regarding how to authorise root applications to use your user X server.

My original problem was unable to run an editor from "kdesu dolphin" because of an existing bug. I can do the workaround by calling the editor using kdesu from terminal emulator.