DCOP Communications Error (Screen Capture)
 

I'm still trying to find out why I can't get Citrix to work. In doing so, I tried to tar the <filename>.tar.gz. After getting some help here to get the tar command to display just one screen at a time so I could see what was happening, I tried to do a Screen Capture and got this error message:

DCOP communications error (Screen Capture)
There was ann error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was:
Could not read network connection list.
/home/user/.DCOPserver_asus-1783989073__0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

The device is an Asus netbook 900 running Xandros and the KDE GUI. It has limited RAM and HD storage - which I suspect is the underlying problem with the Citrix client installation, but I need to get all the information captured in order to post it without typos. I'm posting from a WinXP laptop (shame on me) and can't post the tar results until I get the DCOP problem fixed.

TIA

Well, Xandros is not really a good linux distribution, you got an Eee? Right? DCOP is long dead, as is KDE3, the version shipping with the Eee. The last major release date back to 2005 and the last bug fix date from 2 years. KDE currently look like this:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3914/air.png

If you can't upgrade, which seem to be the case with Xandros, you can try an alternative distribution, like Mandriva. As for your problem, your drive may be 100% full or you don't have the write access on the DCOP socket.

try:
sudo chmod 777 /home/user/.DCOP*
sudo chmod 700 /home/user/
dcopserver &

in a terminal to fix the problem.

Nevermind! I found the solution by entering the error in Google.

I had to enter the following command:

sudo chown user:user /home/user/.kde


After doing so, I was able to start Screen Capture.

I am new to this forum business and I no nothing about Linux and I have the same DCOP error as ahr8tch. I have an Asus netbook.

When you say "enter the following command" where do I enter it?

USAGIRL

Hi USAGIRL!

In order to enter the command, you have to have a Terminal which is like a DOS prompt in WIndoze. I don't have the Asus machine handy and can't remember how I got to the terminal screen. The 'sudo . . . ' command string I cited above is part of the UNIX/Linux command set. You might want to search for it to learn a little about it and entering commands first to be certain that you don't create a problem.

HTH