Dbus daemon

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:31 +0100, Marcin wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:58:02 +0100, Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:32 +0100, Marcin wrote:
> >> Hmm...., Ok, but I still don't understand how do what I asked about in  
> >> my
> >> previous mail.Could you explain me how do it practically?
> >> If it is possible of course :)
> >
> > Most distributions start the DBus daemon in the X startup scripts so the
> > entire X session has access to the DBus session bus.  If you want it
> > started when you login at a console, you could add eval `dbus-launch` to
> > your .bash_profile I guess.
> >
> 
> Some time ago I tried to do this in this way, but it doesn't work :) I  
> have no idea why :/
> 
I guess because dbus-launch needs a process to spawn and watch. So I
guess it would be better to set 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session bash'
as the shell for the user.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>