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
|> 
|> Anyway, I hope this helps at least a little.

Actually, I tried putting  the same code in /usr/bin/f-spot (the script that calls the f-spot 
executable), which seems like a more sensible place for it, and it worked fine from there also,

Jim