On 02/14/2013 06:35 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/14/2013 01:28 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:53 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:49:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> >>>> DJ Delorie wrote: >>>>> Disadvantage, if you ask me. First thing audacious did was spew >>>>> random errors to the screen and change my Firefox and emacs cursors. >>>> >>>> So I suspect that Audacious started gnome-settings-daemon. >>> >>> It doesn't do that when I use OpenBox instead of GNOME, so OpenBox >>> does not auto-spawn g-s-d. >>> >>> However, one of its plug-ins talks to DBus (org.gnome.SettingsDaemon) >>> for GNOME media player keyboard shortcuts. That plug-in is enabled by >>> default and by request, and anyone not running a compatible environment >>> can easily switch it off in the preferences. >> >> Or you could fix the plugin to not auto-start the daemon so we don't get >> blamed for Audacious bugs... > > Actually after seeing this thread I was planning on sending a mail to > ask people how to fix this. I guess that dbus-activation causes > g-s-d to start when the audacious tries to talk to it. > > Rather then a less the friendly worded reply, it would be actually > helpful if you could tell us (pointer to a code example would be a > bonus) how to talk to a dbus interface without causing > dbus-activation to trigger. Nothing fancy: http://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GDBusConnection.html#GDBusCallFlags or http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusMessage.html#ga1596d92a8d604f954b48c7410263d2f0 Obviously I can't list every single language or binding here. Cheers, Stef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
