Re: what options do I need to specify when starting gnome-settings-daemon?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:31 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
>Hi
>
>Sorry to reply to my own message but since nobody responded so far I
>assume this question is either quite difficult or I'm asking in the
>wrong place(s).
>
>Are these options undocumented or should I be asking this yet somewhere
>else? Perhaps someone can tell me which list this should be on?

Those extra options are for session management, I believe, so they
aren't much useful unless you're starting GNOME with gnome-session.
(I'm not personally sure if the session management is a widely supported
standard or has a lot of GNOME-specific extensions/features.)

>
>TIA
>
>Bram
>
>On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:04 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I use fluxbox as my WM on a debian/testing box but I do use several
>> gnome-apps and I have discovered that I need to launch the
>> gnome-settings-daemon to get a.o. the desired keyboard settings.
>> 
>> So I added the following line to my .xsession[1]:
>> gnome-settings-daemon &
>> 
>> However when I run gnome the gnome-settings-daemon is running with the
>> following options:
>> /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
>> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=24
>> 
>> Should I add the options to my .xsession? If so what would be the proper
>> command?
>> 
>> Are there any other daemons I should run?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Bram
>> 
>> [1] Perhaps this is more safe?:
>> GSDPID=`pidof gnome-settings-daemon`
>> if [  "x$GSDPID" == "x" ]; then
>> gnome-settings-daemon &
>> fi
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>