Missing spec pieces (Was Re: [PATCH] client configuration file support)

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Fri Jun 11 08:39:09 PDT 2010


Thiago Macieira schrieb:
> Em Sexta-feira 11 Junho 2010, às 15:53:00, David Zeuthen escreveu:
>   
>> I don't recall anything about "autolaunch:" being an allowed address.
>> Please clarify.
>>     
>
> "autolaunch:" is the default address type. If DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is 
> empty, it's assumed to mean "autolaunch:" which in turn triggers a platform-
> specific way of obtaining the bus address[*].
>
> I'm not sure if it's allowed to appear in DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, but it 
> works there.
>
> [*] On X11, that's finding the window that holds the 
> "_DBUS_SESSION_BUS_SELECTION_${USER}_${MACHINE_UUID}" selection and then 
> reading the property "_DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" from it. This should be 
> documented as well in the spec.
>   
I can add that too.

BTW: Does anyone know how to add/update documention files on 
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc ? The spec is version 0.12, where 
current version is 0.14.

Regards
 Ralf



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