On Mar 17, 2008, at 17:22 , Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>>> And finally, there is a trick in the script so it connects to the >>>> current Sugar session even if run from the console or via ssh - may >>>> be useful to somebody: >>>> >>>> if not 'SUGAR_PREFIX' in os.environ: >>>> """Connect to running Sugar session""" >>>> cp = ConfigParser() >>>> cp.read(env.get_profile_path('session.info')) >>>> os.environ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = cp.get('Session', >>>> 'dbus_address') >>>> dbus.set_default_main_loop(dbus.mainloop.NULL_MAIN_LOOP) >>> >>> Thanks a lot, this is really useful for me already! Maybe also put >>> it somewhere in the wiki... [[Programming Tricks]] :) >> >> >> I actually have no idea how evil that snippet really is ;) Wold be >> nice if some Sugar/DBus expert could comment. > > Don't really know why that file is there, but from this comment from > the code that creates it, it's not something you can rely in the long > term: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=blob;f=src/main.py;h=e78570769e8138c827e04c1a6af820c6ce712955;hb=HEAD#l53 > > Perhaps in the xo you could rely on this hardcoded value? > > os.environ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = 'unix:path=/tmp/olpc- > session-bus'
That is more elegant, thanks. I updated the script. It now also switches to the olpc user if run as root, is case- insensitive to the listed activities, and supports excluding activities (because, e.g., OurStories and XaoS are broken). Ah, I need to stop working on this ;) - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar