how to "discover" the session bus

Ross Burton ross at burtonini.com
Tue Apr 8 13:15:37 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:08 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> I'm getting started with libdbus (developing a Scheme binding).
> 
> On OpenMoko the issue has come up, how to "discover" the bus address
> of the already-running session daemon.  /etc/X11/Xsession starts the
> daemon, so inside that X session it is accessible, but what if you ssh
> to the phone or otherwise get another shell?  I modified Xsession to
> do this

Set $DISPLAY and let DBus find the session bus by looking at the
properties DBus sets on the root window?

Ross
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