Re: dbus and the bus address

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:

|> I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile
|> (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ):
|> 
|> if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
|>      ## if not found, launch a new one
|>      eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)
|>    export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
|>     export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
|> fi
|> 
|> My /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch does not have those
|> "export" lines, maybe they are needed.
|> 
|> I messed with this problem for quite a while before getting it right,
|> and now I am not even sure I remeber what it was that I changed :-(
|> 
|> Anyway, I hope this helps at least a little.

More than a little. This seems to fix the problem for all three
applications.

Extremely cool. Thank you. 

Jim