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  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Johannes</firstname>">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Ranke</surname>">
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  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>March 25, 2006</date>">
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  <!ENTITY dhemail     "<email>jranke@uni-bremen.de</email>">
  <!ENTITY dhusername  "Johannes Ranke">
  <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>DCOPSTART</refentrytitle>">
  <!ENTITY dhpackage   "dcopstart">

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    <address>
      &dhemail;
    </address>
    <author>
      &dhfirstname;
      &dhsurname;
    </author>
    <copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
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  <refmeta>
    &dhucpackage;

    &dhsection;
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  <refnamediv>
    <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>

    <refpurpose>Start a KDE service and return its DCOP reference</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command>

      <arg choice='req'><replaceable>service</replaceable></arg>
      <arg><replaceable>...</replaceable></arg>

    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> starts a KDE service (i.e. an application
	that is registered in the KDE system of .desktop files) and returns its
	reference for later use in shell scripts. If the service is not scriptable
	via DCOP, dcopstart returns nothing, but starts the service.</para>

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    <title>OPTIONS</title>

    <variablelist>
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        <term><option>--help</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show usage information.</para>
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    <title>EXAMPLES</title>
    
    <para><example>
      <title>Get the DCOP reference for a newly started konqueror instance</title>
        <blockquote><literallayout>
KONQ_ID=$(dcopstart konqueror http://www.kde.org)
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    </example></para>

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  <refsect1>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>

    <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; &lt;&dhemail;&gt; for 
	  the &debian; system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
	  to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
	  &gnu; General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by
	  the Free Software Foundation.</para>

	<para>On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
	  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.</para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
      <para><application>dcop</application>(1), <application>dcopfind</application>(1)</para>
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