Hi, The session DBus in Debian Xsessions is currently started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch if the use-session-dbus option is set.
Newer gnome-session will spawn a session DBus automatically if none has been started. If gnome-session launches DBus, DBus will inherit env from gnome-session which is handy for gnome-keyring for example. I suspect we wouldn't suffer from the sound issues (the desktop sounds are not working bugs) would we be moving to launch DBus from gnome-session, and I think this is what we should aim to do. I personally think it makes a lot of sense to launch DBus from gnome-session; what I wonder about is how we're going to switch to this setup. Ubuntu plans to fix this via a patch to the dbus Xsession snippet to avoid starting DBus when running GNOME session; see Ubuntu #62163 and <http://librarian.launchpad.net/7170382/dbus_1.0.2-1ubuntu34.patch>. It's not trivial to know whether we're really in a GNOME session because: - from the PoV of gdm, there are a couple of GNOME sessions, and the "Default" session, which will launch x-session-manager which might or might not gnome-session - sessions can be started via startx and/or various other ways Note: there's currently an upstream bug that gnome-session does not wait on DBus enough; see GNOME bug #395488. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
