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Re: meaning of a warning message



On 21.Okt.2013, at 16:51, Erwan David wrote:

> 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.

Does it mean that dbus does not work with remote X sessions at all?

-- 
Markus

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