Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:03:42PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I suspect (but am not sure) that dbus is not very useful on a non-gui >> desktop or server. If that's the case, then launching via dbus-launch >> to .xinitrc makes sense. >> > I've always thought that for *my* uses, dbus was a build-time > desktop dependency (only). Seeing the multiple processes that Andy > has seems to verify that belief. I'll note that *something* needed > the uuidgen in the distant past, and everything has been fine for years. > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by a non-gui desktop
It's not common any more, but I was thinking of someone using links/mutt from a terminal. For the more usual situation of xorg and a window manager, processes may want to communicate with each other. Launching a browser may give focus to an existing window instead of launching a second window. I implemented that in a help system on a project. > For a server, I agree that dbus is an unlikely requirement - I > certainly don't build it on my server, so I have no need or ability > to launch it. It could be used on a server. For instance it could be used to communicate between processes instead of threads within a single process. It probably wouldn't be my first choice for a design though. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
