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Link broken...

This link is broken - guess I had actually better look for it.

You can do it with DCOP:

dcop kicker kicker toggleShowDesktop

shows or hides the desktop.

sorry for being vague - bit green here.. not too much linux under my belt..

yum tells me:

[root@cpe-60-226-119-17 ~]# dcop kicker kicker toggleShowDesktop
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

ummm... urrr... suggestions?

you shell appears to be in root mode, but are you running KDE as root as well?

No, not running KDE as root. I just su - everytime I open a terminal. Is this correct or have i gotten into a bacd habbit.?

it's a bad habbit

with su - you login as root, using the environment of root.

root did not start kde, so there is no DCOP server running for root.

so the dcop-command won't work.

You can however interfene with a DCOP-server of a user, by giving the correct commands to dcop so that it connects with the DCOP-server of that particular user.

But much easier is to just open a terminal and type the dcop command, without switching to root with su - in the first place.

Well, since we are scrambling around with su and dcop: here's an example how you can minimize the windows on a kde desktop of a different user then root:

If you want to send a dcop command to a particular user, you have to know the name of the user and the name of the kde session that he/she is running.

You can do that with this command:

# dcop --user username --list-sessions

dcop will reply with something like this:

Active sessions for user /home/username :
.DCOPserver_hostname__0

Then you use that information to minimize all applications on the desktop of 'username' with this command:

dcop --user username --session .DCOPserver_hostname__0 kicker kicker toggleShowDesktop

You can also minimize all applications of all users on all desktops with this command:

dcop --all-users --all-sessions kicker kicker toggleShowDesktop

Umm this is good - but I think I am a little out of my depth.

Sounds like I need to figure out how to set all that up as a script, then attach that to a custom applet, and then drop that on the tool bar so I can execute when requried as a "show desktop" icon like WindowZzz... does that sound right?

Yes - I am very out of my depth on this one - been using Fedora & KDE for about 3 weeks or so... still figuring out the command prompt.

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Originally posted by Synic
Sounds like I need to figure out how to set all that up as a script, then attach that to a custom applet, and then drop that on the tool bar so I can execute when requried as a "show desktop" icon like WindowZzz... does that sound right?

Nope

If you want to have an applet that shows the desktop, just righ click on the panel, and choose [panel menu -> add applet to panel], look for the applet that shows the desktop and add it to the panel.

If you want to create a script that minimizes all windows, then it would look like this:

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. still figuring out the command prompt.

Well, you can start by not typing su - everytime you open a terminal.
No reason to do everything as root.

Love your work. I have this problem of not using my common sense... Now have a "show desktop" button on my toolbar.

I have been looking so hard at all this stuff that I am not noticing stuff till it popps me in the back of the head...


"Getting use to the command prompt... " well... have my fingers on it, its just the actually commands that fly in one ear and out the other. There are so many I end up not remembering stuff in did a couple of hours ago...