Re: dbus rqmts for gnome-screensaver ?

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Brent Smith wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, can you tell me what this means ?
  the environment for
> gnome-screensaver must have the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS set. 
likewise, what does this mean ?
 If you
> are running gnome in a jhbuild session, then you need a "dbus-launch
> gnome-session" in your ~/.xinitrc
I'm compiling gnome from cvs into the standard /usr location and just 
launching a regular gnome session from there by running gdm from the 
linux command line. (I have a stock KDE setup as fallback when current 
cvs head is unloadable).
thanks
Rod
>

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