Re: [Muine] Muine-shell fails to work

[Mark McLauchlan <mrm21 sussex ac uk>]

Hi

> I installed muine-shell but it refuses to work, I have dbus 0.23 and it 
> is up and running.
> 
> I added some prints in the source code, and connecting to dbus always fails:
> connection = dbus_g_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, NULL);
> results in connection being NULL

It sounds like the daemon is running but the environment variables
aren't set.  Is anything else that uses DBus working?  My suggestion is
to look at dbus-launch - either use 'dbus-launch muine-shell' or better
still start your window manager using 'dbus-launch wm'.

Cheers

Mark