[SOLVED] Question about dbus-launch vs. exec

mries92 · 2017-10-13 14:25:47

Hello everybody. I am pretty new to this stuff, but am slowly learning. Sorry if this is a bad place to post, but its not really an issue so I didn't think it was appropriate for the newbie corner. My question is about the dbus-launch command. I finished setting up my machine a few days ago and started working on getting remote desktop working. It was a long learning process and I finally managed to get it working, but it only works when I have "dbus-launch startkde" as opposed to "exec startkde" in my ~/.xinitrc file. If I don't have this command I get an error when logging in that goes something like "cannot connect to d-bus session". My question is what exactly does this command do and how is it different from exec? Why would my remote desktop not work when using regular exec? I am using xrdp with tigervnc.

Last edited by mries92 (2017-10-13 15:13:46)

Slithery · 2017-10-13 14:30:39

Does your ~/.xinitrc contain all of the appropriate boilerplate or does it only contain the exec command?

If the latter then you're doing it wrong...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc

AFAIK you should never use dbus-launch for anything.

mries92 · 2017-10-13 14:36:09

Hey slithery, thanks for the reply. Sorry for my ignorance but as I said I'm pretty new to this. There was a bunch of stuff already in the .xinitrc file which I deleted at the suggestion of another forum post and simply put "dbus-launch startkde". This solved my problem and didn't seem to cause any issues so I figured it must be fine. I was stupid and did not make a backup before doing this. Is there a way to get all this boilerplate code back?

Trilby · 2017-10-13 14:44:24

I gather the forum post you read was from a long time ago - dbus-launch used to be the recommended way.

mries92 wrote:

Is there a way to get all this boilerplate code back?

Yes. Read the link you were just provided with.

mries92 · 2017-10-13 14:59:44

You guys are the best! I restored the boilerplate code and included "exec starkde" instead of dbus-launch and everything is running 100% now! This forum is so helpful to us new guys. Really appreciate it.

Slithery · 2017-10-13 15:02:58

Glad we could help.

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[SOLVED] Question about dbus-launch vs. exec

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