TKDESK(1)

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💖 TKDESK(1) — the od-tkdesk era 💖

okay bestie, so this is the TkDesk manual, section 1, and today's main character is od-tkdesk — a lil cutie that remotely opens a directory using TkDesk. yes. remotely. she's serving from afar and we're obsessed. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

od-tkdesk — remotely open a directory using TkDesk

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

od-tkdesk [ directory ]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so if you invoke od-tkdesk with no argument at all, it opens a brand-new TkDesk file browser or list window showing you the contents of the current working directory. ngl, it does not let you pick which one — whether a browser or a list window shows up is decided by the menu entry "Always In Browser" in TkDesk's "Options" menu. so like, that's TkDesk's call, not yours. 💅

but wait, there's more — if you do hand directory over to od-tkdesk, its contents get displayed in a new TkDesk window. slay.

and here's the tea ☕: od-tkdesk talks to TkDesk through a TCP/IP server, and that server has to be started from inside TkDesk itself, using the menu entry "TkDesk Server" from TkDesk's "Options" menu. so no server, no communication. periodt. 🔥

fr fr, start the server first or she's just gonna sit there looking pretty with nothing to talk to. 😭

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

  • directory — the directory whose contents is to be displayed. that's it, that's the one. give her a directory and she'll show you what's inside. 🌈

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • tkdeskclient — usually living in /usr/local/bin, this program is the one doing the actual communication with TkDesk. lowkey the real MVP of the whole operation. she's the one making the calls, od-tkdesk is just the vibe. ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read the whole friend group, they're all iconic. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Christian Bolik (Christian.Bolik@mainz.netsurf.de) — the legend who wrote her. bow down. 🙇‍♀️

and that's the whole page, bestie!! it's TkDesk 2.0, dated 04/15/2004, brought to you by the 4th Berkeley Distribution — old money, honestly. 💀💖 mwah, go open a directory. 🧚

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