Re: Starting DBus from gnome-session instead of Xsession
Hi,
Does d-i install dbus service as a standard part of the system?
Alan
> Hi,
>
> The session DBus in Debian Xsessions is currently started by
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch if the use-session-dbus option
> is set.
>
> Newer gnome-session will spawn a session DBus automatically if none has
> been started.
>
> If gnome-session launches DBus, DBus will inherit env from
> gnome-session which is handy for gnome-keyring for example.
>
> I suspect we wouldn't suffer from the sound issues (the desktop sounds
> are not working bugs) would we be moving to launch DBus from
> gnome-session, and I think this is what we should aim to do.
>
>
> I personally think it makes a lot of sense to launch DBus from
> gnome-session; what I wonder about is how we're going to switch to this
> setup.
> Ubuntu plans to fix this via a patch to the dbus Xsession snippet to
> avoid starting DBus when running GNOME session; see Ubuntu #62163 and
> <http://librarian.launchpad.net/7170382/dbus_1.0.2-1ubuntu34.patch>.
> It's not trivial to know whether we're really in a GNOME session
> because:
> - from the PoV of gdm, there are a couple of GNOME sessions, and the
> "Default" session, which will launch x-session-manager which might or
> might not gnome-session
> - sessions can be started via startx and/or various other ways
>
>
> Note: there's currently an upstream bug that gnome-session does not
> wait on DBus enough; see GNOME bug #395488.
>
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