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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/27/2015 11:43 AM, Thiago Macieira
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<pre wrap="">On Monday 27 July 2015 11:25:46 Erik Bennett wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm new to D-Bus, so please be patient.
I have a situation where I have three computers and one XTerminal.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal></a>
The three machines are:
* darkstar (compile/build machine)
* nostromo (thunderbird/firefox)
* sulaco (file server/nautilus)
All three display on the Xterminal, some as different users.
My question(s):
* Will d-bus handle this (admittedly unusual) situation gracefully?
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That depends on what you mean by "gracefully".
D-Bus is not network-transparent. Each machine will behave as if it were
isolated from the rest. Any remote X windows will behave as if they were being
displayed on the local machine's display. Those processes will not talk to
other processes running on different machines over D-Bus -- though they may
still see each other via X.
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<pre wrap=""> * Will just one computer be the d-bus "master"?
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Question is not relevant.
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Ah.<br>
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So there are a couple of points I left out of my original post:<br>
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<li>darkstar runs the X display manager, and after login, the X
window manager.<br>
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<li>all three of the workstations (darkstar, nostromo, and sulaco)
are headless (no keyboard, mouse, or display)</li>
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<p>Follow-on questions:<br>
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<li>Is the model for D-Bus like MS Windows? That is, all of the
applications (X clients) for my session run on one machine
displaying in the same session on that same machine?</li>
<li>Are there plans to make this more like traditional X systems?
That is multiple X clients on multiple machines possibly running
as multiple users?</li>
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<p>I'm not trashing on D-Bus, I'm just trying to understand how or
if D-Bus fits into our environment.<br>
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<p>Thanks, again.<br>
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-Erik<br>
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