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stjepan

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Registered: 2006-07-02

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: .

It's not broken, you need to have a dbus user session that everything connects to and XGL doesn't do that. You could edit startxgl to use dbus-launch, or (my preference, more convenient) you could put this in your .bashrc to start a dbus session when you log in:

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
          eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

(FWIW, the space before the semicolon is required, or --exit-with-session won't exit with the session. Same for --sh-syntax, without that things won't be able to connect to it.)

stjepan

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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If you start X manually using startx, you could put this in your .xinitrc:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

as example to start gnome.

The advantage of Guillible Jones method is that you always have a session bus whenever you start a shell, this is very convenient when dbus decides to crash after a configuration file change (yes, this is bad, this needs to get fixed before gnome 2.16 can be usable).

stjepan

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