Re: meaning of a warning message
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:46:58PM CEST, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> said:
> On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 16:14 +0200, François Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > Sometimes while I launch evince (or emacs), I get this message in the
> > terminal:
> >
> > (evince:28904): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed:
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
> >
> > What does it mean?
>
> It does mean that you don't use GNOME? Take a look at ~/.xsession-errors
> and you'll notice that there are a lot of similar warnings. You can
> ignore them.
I also get them when I use a ssh -X session, which does not start
dbus. I was told that all applications using gconf need dbus and thus
are not compatible anymore with ssh -X.
That's why I do not install emacs-gtk, but emacs-lucid which does not
require gconf.
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