Apparently, kmail needs dcop in order to run, and, AFAICT, no window managers / desktops except KDE run dcop. (Maybe dcop can be run in those others??)

The reason this comes up is that I've used the kde desktop almost always since I switched to Linux. Recently, I (again) tried some alternate desktops which might be faster and with a smaller footprint than kde. Kmail did not work in any that I tried, and, since kmail is my current email client, I guess I won't switch desktops / window managers in the near future.

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Error messages on trying to start kmail in larswm (??)

rhk@system5:~$ kmail
_KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
kbuildsycoca running...
Id '1' was already in done-list!
Id '4' was already in done-list!
Id '5' was already in done-list!
Id '6' was already in done-list!
Id '7' was already in done-list!
Id '8' was already in done-list!
Id '9' was already in done-list!
Id '3.1-update-identities' was already in done-list!
Id '3.1-use-identity-uoids' was already in done-list!
Id '3.1-new-mail-notification' was already in done-list!
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
*** KMail got signal 11 (Crashing)
DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-18169' to 'kmail'
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!
rhk@system5:~$ kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy

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