What I usually do is copy the dbus files into the system paths, see attached script. That should also make it work (after dbus restart).
-- sebas On woensdag 28 maart 2018 12:52:16 CEST Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > So after leaving neon to use a newer ubuntu (needed it for my hardware), I > have started building KDE myself again and tried setting my tradition > install in /opt and building with kdesrc-build. > > I ran into a number of issues, many minor things I have already fixed by > patches. But there were two bigger issues with dbus-1 and polkit. > > First kscreen doesn't work because it can't find its backends. While not > easily found, I did eventually find suggestions online to fix this by adding > a file in /etc/dbus-1/session.d with the prefix service dir. I talked to > the dbus people and they seemed positive about automatically using XDG env > variables to do that automatically in the future, but currently you still > need to add that file. Perhaps kdesrc-build could document that and maybe > have a sudo install mode that installs that? > > The second issue was that powerdevil brighness controls didn't work. This > was because of something similar with the actions and services not > installed for polkit-1, this is a bit more complicated as polkit-1 does not > allow you to add extra prefix directories. So you need to add the actions > in /usr/share/ polkit-1/actions. And those files you need to install are > not even generated. I have tracked it down abit and found that kauth > actually has a tool to generate the action files and have a cmake command > kauth_install_actions that is even used by powerdevil, but the .policy > files are still not generated nor installed in prefix or /usr/share by > kdesrc-build. Anyone know why this is? > > 'Allan -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org
sync-dbus-services.sh
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