Re: dbus activation service path

[Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Simon,

Thanks for the response.
I created https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/issues/219

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:28 PM Simon McVittie <smcv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 23:27:20 +0200, Damian Ivanov wrote:
> > I also have a question about dbus activation.
> > Is there an environment variable or something to tell systemd/dbus-broker &co
> > to look in a specific path for dbus .service files?
>
> The D-Bus Specification[1] says:
>
>      On Unix systems, the session bus should search for .service files in
>      $XDG_DATA_DIRS/dbus-1/services as defined by the XDG Base Directory
>      Specification. Implementations may also search additional locations,
>      with a higher or lower priority than the XDG directories.
>
> so you should set the environment variables XDG_DATA_HOME and/or
> XDG_DATA_DIRS, the same way you set those variables to influence the
> search path for .desktop files. See [2] for more information.
>
> If a piece of software that reads session service definition files does
> not do this, please report that as a bug in that piece of software, using
> its bug tracking system. In particular, if you believe dbus-broker has
> a bug in this area, reporting it in flatpak's bug tracker is unlikely
> to get it seen or fixed by dbus-broker developers.
>
>     smcv
>
> [1] https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html
> [2] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
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