Re: starting dbus

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Cam,

Both a system-wide and per-session-local message bus needs to run.  The
system-wide message-dbus, which is used for "system things" like
hot-plugging hardware devices, is started as root with the command

        dbus-daemon --system

The per-session-local message bus, which is used as a means of
communications between user initiated applications, is started when
GARNOME is started. This is accomplished by running something like

        dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session /usr/local/bin/garnome-session

where garnome-session is a shell script that sets up the GARNOME
environment variables and then execs the GARNOME version of
gnome-session [see the README].

Applications that use the per-session-local message bus look for
environment variables that tell them where to connect. dbus-launch does
what it required so that *all* child processes [starting with
garnome-session] can see those variables.  See the man page for
additional details.


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 06:57 +1100, Campbell Barton wrote:
> Hi, I have installed garnome 2.14 with only minor hitches (latest glibc 
> and gcc, linux kernel - all self compiled)
> 
> I thing that still baffels me is how to start dbus
> 
> dbus-daemon --session
> dbus-launch
> 
> Both seem to load but apps that require dbus still complain its not loaded.
> Any hints?
> 
>  _ Cam
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