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stoggy

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Registered: 2014-10-22

Posts: 2

dbus problem, i think...

So i am trying to run emulationstation.  its a gui menu app, that can be controlled by a joystick.

When i startx and go into cinnamon.  I can start emulationstation from the command line and it works fine.

If I change my ~/.xinitrc to exec emulationstation.  It starts and shows there are joysticks connected but it never sees input.  I can add a 2nd joystick and it sees 2, If i remove the joystick it only sees 1.  Input always works from the keyboard in emulationstation.  If I change the xinitrc to exec xterm and start emulationstation, the samething happens.  From the xterm i can use sdl2-jstest and I see the joystick sending input.  If i setup a joystick device section in /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev or in 50-joystick,  I can move the mouse from the joystick in x but emulationstation doesn't see input. 

I think the only thing that changes, when i run startx without a WM, is my dbus config.  if i list my dbus settings when im at the xterm, I have basically nothing for my session.

how do i get my dbus settings from when im running cinnamon and then insert them when Im just running x.
or any other suggestions?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,543

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Re: dbus problem, i think...

Do you source /etc/X11/xinitrc.d/30-dbus in your (wm-free) xinitrc?  If not, that's probably what's missing.

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