On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:03:42PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I suspect (but am not sure) that dbus is not very useful on a non-gui > desktop or server. If that's the case, then launching via dbus-launch > to .xinitrc makes sense. > I've always thought that for *my* uses, dbus was a build-time desktop dependency (only). Seeing the multiple processes that Andy has seems to verify that belief. I'll note that *something* needed the uuidgen in the distant past, and everything has been fine for years.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by a non-gui desktop - I know of people who use a system without xorg to run their normal tasks (heard from them in the context of my LatGrkCyr console fonts), but hardly anyone would call that a desktop. My own desktop on icewm doesn't have icons on the desktop (only the taskbar, and in applications), but it's still very much in the gui camp. For a server, I agree that dbus is an unlikely requirement - I certainly don't build it on my server, so I have no need or ability to launch it. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
