On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:35:23 +0100, Hans de Goede 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. What I checked in ~13 hours ago is this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/audacious-plugins.git/commit/?id=55972c07f34e43db3b9e24ca4918ac5bd8a39a46 Reviews/feedback appreciated. Preferably, I'd still like to see a test-case where g-s-d would be started automatically. Chasing ghosts is not so funny. -- Fedora release 19 (Rawhide) - Linux 3.8.0-0.rc7.git2.1.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.25 0.37 0.43 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
