Question on C code - any programmatic way of setting DBUS_BUS_SESSION address?

[Simon McVittie]

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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 08:58:58 +0300, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote:
> dbus_bus_get (DBusBusType  type,
> 	      const char* address,
> 	      DBusError   *error)

If you want to connect to a bus at a non-standard address, you shouldn't
be using "the" shared session-bus connection as returned by dbus_bus_get.
dbus_bus_get sets up and returns a shared connection - just because *you*
want to connect to a non-standard address for the session bus doesn't mean
that any other libraries or components in your process want to do the same.

For a bus at a non-standard location, instead of calling dbus_bus_get(), use
dbus_connection_open() (or possibly dbus_connection_open_private()) followed
by dbus_bus_register().

If you really do want to manipulate the global state of your process
(this is only appropriate if you are writing the program, rather than a
library), manipulate the environment before any D-Bus API is called
(e.g. in main() or in a wrapper script).

    Simon
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