[PyKDE] dcop program

[Jim Bublitz]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:47, basse wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am doing a little application that can be controlled via dcop. so far
> everything else works, but I am unable to set the application name without
> pid number appearing to the end of it automaticly (with dash).
>
> so in dcop list, instead of "myapp" I see "myapp-5422"  for example.
> otherwise that would be ok, but as I want to control my application
> remotely, I need to know the name of it and now it's different every time I
> login.
>
> is there a way to force pid not to appear there?  and why does it actually
> appear? I only run one instance of it.
>
> thanks!
>
> p.s. this is what I use to set the application name in first place:
> aboutdata = KAboutData("klik", "klik", "3.3")
> KCmdLineArgs.init(sys.argv, aboutdata)

Use KUniqueApplication instead of KApplication in the app you want to control.

Jim