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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] dbus doesn't export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:24:51 +0100

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:40PM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm having some trouble running f-spot and the like because
> our dbus doesn't export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. I noticed if I start
> dbus-launch with auto-syntax it tells me what to export. I have no idea
> if this is a problem in my setup or the spell. Figured someone on the
> list might know.

You either need to start the session bus yourself in a specific way, or
use a session manager/desktop startup that does it for you.
I'm not sure about session managers, so I set it up manually in addition
to gnome-session. Here's what I have in my ~/.xsession to have the
session bus available for apps like f-spot:

eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)
exec gnome-session

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