Re: [gdm-list] multiple at-spi starting commands

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Francesco:

I'd think there should just be on at-spi-registryd per-user.  You
would need to test and see if there are problems with starting more
than one instance of it.

> I have been told that the automatic start of at-spi-registryd in 
> ubuntu has probably been disabled on purpose because of 
> incompatibilities with certain hardware.

This seems badly broken to me.  What incompatibilities?  Are there
bugs filed about these issues?  I assume that Ubuntu doesn't disable
starting at-spi-registryd in the user's session.  If it works okay
in the session, how does hardware issues create problems for GDM
only?

> So I will add a gesture to start at-spi. Will I have to make sure 
> that the command to start at-spi is only given once? Or will 
> subsequent commands to start at-spi remain without effect, once 
> at-spi is running?

Starting it via a gesture is less usable and probably prone to error.
I'd recommend working to fix the incompaitibiles with certain hardware
issues.  As a temporary workaround so you can focus on your more
interesting task of integrating onscreen, it's okay.  But it seems a
little odd to expect an end user to know they need to start a
daemon by hand before they can run AT programs.

Brian