On Monday 07 April 2008 10:15:00 Chia-I Wu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:40:10AM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > so I don't understand why the same user (root) would not be able to > > connect to the same daemon from a different shell. > > You need to know the address of the session bus to connect, which is > available in the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. > > This is what I do: > > $ cat /proc/<pid of openmoko-today>/environ > (extract DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and...) > $ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=blah > > Don't know if there is a better way.
Most distributions configure dbus to get the addresses through X properties. In OE, we disable this, since we don't want dbus to link against libX11. For OM we might want to change that. :M:
