starting X application in terminal causes warnings

xiaweitang · 2010-01-29 19:21:17

When starting some X applications like emacs and evince within xterm or urxvt, I always ge warnings

emacs &
GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

evince &
** (evince:3624): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

The applications start okay, but why those warnings?

PirateJonno · 2010-01-29 22:48:17

the first one happens for a lot of programs that use glib, it's probably a glib bug

the second one probably means you have to install gnome-settings-daemon

xiaweitang · 2010-01-29 23:02:05

PirateJonno wrote:

the first one happens for a lot of programs that use glib, it's probably a glib bug
the second one probably means you have to install gnome-settings-daemon

What is gnome-settings-daemon? Why evince would need that?

n0dix · 2010-01-29 23:15:37

xiaweitang wrote:

PirateJonno wrote:
the first one happens for a lot of programs that use glib, it's probably a glib bug
the second one probably means you have to install gnome-settings-daemon
What is gnome-settings-daemon? Why evince would need that?

Because evince is thinking to work with gnome, i imagine it needs the daemon to configure some properties, etc.

bernarcher · 2010-01-30 07:30:34

n0dix wrote:

Because evince is thinking to work with gnome, i imagine it needs the daemon to configure some properties, etc.

You may try evince-gtk from the AUR instead.

Edit:
Naah - just tried, the dbus-warning persists.

** (evince:24167): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

This should not happen, imo. Could there be a stale setting from a previous standard evince installation I did miss?

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-01-30 07:40:08)

bernarcher · 2010-01-30 12:11:42

Now I did compile evince-gtk with the --disable-dbus configure option set in the PKGBUILD. The gnome-settings-daemon dbus warning message is gone and evince appears to work properly on first simple tests.

There is a comment in the evince-gtk AUR package however:

Comment by: skottish on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:57 +0000

    Evince uses dbus to open documents in a single process and aids in inner-application communication. I would leave it unless there's a bug of some sort.

Comment by: jelly on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:23:29 +0000

    i could build evince-gtk without dbus, dont know if it's really better without it.
    --disable-dbus

Don't know whether this will affect the workings of this evince installation.

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#1 2010-01-29 19:21:17

starting X application in terminal causes warnings

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Re: starting X application in terminal causes warnings

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