Re: DBUS Startup Question

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

In order for an app to use the session DBUS, it must be able to find the
dbus session socket. The dbus-launch command sets two environment
variables:

        * DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
        * DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

These env variables must be set in all shells.


-Joseph

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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:49 +0000, Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:48:00 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > Peter,
> > 
> > Using startx /.xinitrc /garnome-session does work. 
> > 
> > I launch the X-server and GARNOME desktop by running startx, after
> > command line  based log in,  which automatically runs the .xinitrc shell
> > script shown below, which sets PATH and then execs garnome-session. The
> > last few lines in my garnome-session file are:
> > 
> >         DBUS_LAUNCH="$GARNOME/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session"
> >         
> >         # export variables
> >         export ACLOCAL_FLAGS ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS PATH MANPATH
> >         LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> >         XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
> > 
> > 
> >         # exec GARNOME's gnome-session
> >         exec $DBUS_LAUNCH $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session
> > 
> > So something is amiss with your configuration. 
> > 
> 
> I agree. the above DOES work. My question was why, if I execute eval
> `dbus-launch --exit-with-session` before launching gnome, it does NOT
> work.
> 
> In other words, the eval command will create the variable
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, it will fork a process for dbus-launch, which
> should be used by all applications needing the bus.
> 
> I was just looking for a way to have a persistent running process of dbus
> so that I could do many things, not just gnome.
> 
> FWIW, this method works fine with my current configuration and gnome 2.14.
> 
> > Connect to #garnome IRC channel and maybe we can figure out what is 
> > happening on your system.
> 
> Maybe I will.
> 
> Like I say, it's more an intellectual question than a bug. I like the way
> I do it now as documented in the dbus manpage.
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
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