Re: [Muine] Muine-shell fails to work

[Gábor Farkas <gabor z10n net>]

Mark McLauchlan wrote:
> 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'.


yes, make sure that the 'correct' dbus is running,
because for example there's usually a system-wide dbus process running.
that's not the dbus-process you need...

technically there are 2 things that have to be there:

1. the dbus process has to run (as your user)
2. the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable has to be set up 
correctly..

but muine-launch takes care all of this...


gabor