On 9/27/05, Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 16:12 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > AFAICT applications can't start the session bus on their own as all > applications need the dbus environment variables, so the book should > provide such instructions. I've always created a script with the > following content as /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/dbus > > eval $(/usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session) > > This seems to work fine but I only use GDM and GNOME, so don't know > whether that works with other display managers. That's what I've always done too. However, I believe it only works with GDM.
> 2. I'm not sure if I need both X and GTK+-2 as dependencies. The > configuration looks for X independently from GTK so I'm not sure. I think GTK+-2 is optional since you can build it with QT as well IIRC. > 3. There are quite a few dependencies listed that are strictly > for building the bindings to the various packages listed. Should > perhaps these be moved to a separate dependency section named > "Optional (for building API bindings)"? Sounds good. > 4. I don't list any configuration tasks. The only thing mentioned > is that you shouldn't touch the installed files, and instead create > 'local' files if you need to modify the default configuration. I didn't need to do any configuration. I just installed it, created messagebus user and group, made the bootscript and file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d, and after that it works IIRC. -- Kevin Jordan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
