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ktalkd is an enhanced talk daemon - a program to handle incoming talk requests,
announce them and allow you to respond to it using a talk client.
GLOSSARY : In this document, if somebody wants to talk to you, you are designated as the "callee".
ktalkd has the following features :
That is the question. :) More seriously, this means that
ktalkd is able to be compiled with or without KDE support.
To use it without KDE, the compilation stage will detect if X or Qt
or KDE is not installed, but you can force a non-KDE daemon if you
use the configure option '--without-X'.
If the callee isn't logged on, or doesn't answer after the second announcement, an answering machine is launched, takes the message, and mails it to the callee.
If desired, a sound is played with the announcement.
If compiled with KDE installed, ktalkd will use ktalkdlg, a KDE dialog, for announcement. If ktalk is running, it will be asked to make the announcement itself. (New since 0.8.8).
If you are logged remotely (e.g. with an
"export DISPLAY=..." command), the X announcement will be made on
this display too. Answer on the one you want !
If you're also logged in a text terminal, and if you're NOT using xterms
(internal restriction), then you'll see a text announcement too, in case
you're using the text terminal at the time of the announcement.
You can set up a forward to another user even to another host if you're away. There are 3 different forwarding methods. See section 'Usage'.
If ktalkd is compiled for KDE, it reads config from KDE config files,
the sitewide ($KDEDIR/share/config/ktalkdrc) and the user one, in its home directory.
The sitewide one has to be manually edited by the administrator, but there is now
a configuration dialog for the user one. It's called kcmktalkd and can
be found in the KDE Control Center after installing ktalkd.
On non-KDE systems, ktalkd will read /etc/talkd.conf.
Under KDE, the announcement will be in your language provided that you set it in the KDE menus and that someone translated ktalkdlg to your language. The same goes for the configuration dialog, kcmktalkd.
ktalkd now supports both protocols, even when forwarding. ktalk supports both protocols as well.
I hope you will enjoy this talk daemon,
David Faure
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