Re: dbus rqmts for gnome-screensaver ?

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Rod Butcher wrote:
> I'm trying to run gnome-screensaver (cvs head version) and I get :-
> (gnome-screensaver:5578): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: couldn't connect
> to session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus
>
> (gnome-screensaver:5578): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: failed to
> register with the message bus
>
> and the screensaver doesn't appear to run.
>
> I believe I have both the system and session dbus-daemon running - using
> the stock Mandrake rpms.
> Can somebody give me a pointer to rqmts for running gnome-screensaver ?
> I've read and digested the dbus documentation as far as I'm able, but
> I'm not a developer. 
> Does this mean that Gnome is switching from bonobo / corba to dbus ?
> thanks
> Rod 

are you running a separate session?  the environment for
gnome-screensaver must have the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS set.  If you
are running gnome in a jhbuild session, then you need a "dbus-launch
gnome-session" in your ~/.xinitrc