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Trouble with dbus and systemd/user
I have systemd set up so that using systemctl start user@me will start my user services as I expect, but my dbus one just won't go (which I need for PulseAudio).
Is there some way I can check dbus or ...
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User systemd PulseAudio service
Not much else to this question: I would like to know what I need to create a PulseAudio systemd service to be run with systemd --user.
I've tried a few different things, including various user ...
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Reuse D-Bus sessions across login sessions
I access a machine through multiple login sessions. The sessions' lifetimes may or may not overlap. In my case, these login sessions are currently always over SSH, but I would prefer to handle local ...
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Compiling and running Snapper for Ubuntu
I am trying to get snapper working in my Mint 14. (The version from launchpad is old and not compatible with Ubuntu 12.10. The OpenSuSe's build project failed to build it, too). So I try my luck with ...
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Failed to get bus connection: Could not connect: Connection refused
When I'm running
evince file.pdf
I got this error
Failed to get bus connection: Could not connect: Connection refused
Ubuntu 12.04
I have to reboot. Can I repair this error without reboot?
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DBUS interface to decrypt a LUKS device?
In modern DEs, like KDE or XFCE, you can mount a LUKS device after entering the password.
Now I want to do this without the file manager, with two steps,
Decrypt the device
Mount the disk with ...
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Can a GTK applet widget be instantiated through dbus?
I just posted this:
#274616: “Simple” gnome applets in Unity - stickynotes
... where I could instantiate a Gnome 2 bonobo applet in a standalone window,
... using ...
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Open kickoff via shell/script
Is there any (undocumented) way to open the KDE Kickoff menu via dbus or some similar mechanism?
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Restricting D-Bus access to the logged-in user via ConsoleKit or systemd
I need to restrict the client of a D-Bus service to only the user logged into the system locally, via ConsoleKit or systemd. How must I configure or write the D-Bus service to do so?
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Schedule halt using ConsoleKit and Dbus
I have been playing with Dbus (versions 1.4.0, in Ubuntu 10.10 and 1.4.14) and ConsoleKit (versions 0.4.1 and 0.4.5) to reboot or halt my computer without being a superuser. Everything works fine in ...
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Can't get DBUS data for automatic statuschange of pidgin
I'm using a script based on the work posted here: Update pidgin status using cron
I'm trying to make a wicd script that automaticly disconnects before Wifi-disconnect and reconnects on ...
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A list of available DBus services
Is there such a thing as list of available DBus services? I've stumbled upon a few (like those provided by NetworkManager, Rhythmbox, Skype, HAL), but I wonder if I can find a rather complete list of ...
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KTorrent: Moving data in a shell script
I'm trying to make a script for my magic folder that will move files to a seeding directory without KTorrent losing track of where the data is, similar to the "Move Data" context menu action in the ...
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How to restart polkitd?
My desktop PC is also used as a NIS/NFS server for a small workgroup. It runs for months without reboot.
Recently I observed that when I log into a desktop session the computer becomes less ...
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Fedora Failed to get D-Bus connection
I have a VPS with fedora 16 installed. I have setup mysql and it was working a couple of days ago.
Now suddenly when I try to start mysql I get the error:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to ...
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Guake throws an error on startup
I'm using Ubuntu-Server 12.04, but I wasn't sure if this was an Ubuntu specific question, so I'm posting it here.
I got myself a graphical user interface by installing xinit and openbox (using ...
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How do I shut down a system through a ConsoleKit DBus message as user?
I found the following command line to shut down a Debian/GNU Linux system
dbus-send \
--system \
--dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit \
--type=method_call \
--print-reply \
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Where might the dbus development (.h) files be for RHEL5?
A quick search from yum for dbus fails to turn up the devel related package that should provide dbus.h et al. Anybody have experience locating the relevant package? Should I just resort to getting ...
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Running VLC from a cronjob: How to get a DBUS connection?
I'm trying to run VLC headless from a cron job. The idea is to grab single images from a RTSP stream every two minutes and (later, and in another script) ftp them to a distant machine. The command ...
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Power management hook for running *X11* scripts on wake
Earlier I asked a similar question, but that one was about running system-level scripts.
I have a script that runs a series of xinput commands in order to enable two-finger scrolling on my touchpad. ...
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How do I prevent ssh remote login from breaking dbus?
I'm running openSUSE 11.3 on my workstation at work under KDE, I don't have root access to it. The default shell has been set to tcsh. When I am logged in at my workstation and log in remotely from my ...
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Run a dbus program in crontab , how to know about the SESSION id?
I need to run some program within crontab , but how can the program know about dbus session id ? it's only available for programs launched by session managers.
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Is it possible to control window management in Gnome Shell using D-Bus?
I would like to programmatically be able to communicate with the Window Manager in Gnome 3, using D-Bus.
The tasks I would like to accomplish are:
listening for new windows
get window flags (e.g. ...
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Is it possible to raise a window using dbus in Gnome3?
I have recently shifted from KDE4 to Gnome3. In KDE you can create application specific keyboard shortcuts to raise windows. I typically create one each for firefox, thunderbird, my terminal etc. That ...
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Reference material about device management
Can anybody recommend materials about device management in the Linux environment? From the point where I insert a cdrom or usb device to the point where it is mounted in /media/somedir.
I know that I ...
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Help configuring DBUS to start JACK
I have the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) installed, but cannot seem to get jack_control start to start the service.
I'm using Slackware64-current, which recently updated its ...
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X, Xorg and D-Bus: what is the difference?
In the process of learning to do certain things in GUI programming (e.g., reserving space on the screen for an application), I have to learn more about the Window Manager, usually X11 on Linux (I'm ...
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Autoconfig/Automake fails to generate AM_CFLAGS & AM_LDFLAGS for dependent D-BUS library. Why?
I want to build a program that use DBUS, using automake/autoconfig tools. But the make command always report an error "dbus/dbus-glib.h": No such file or directory.
My OS is ubuntu 10.10. And I ...
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CLI interace to KDE's notifier
I think KDE's notifier is pretty sweet. I was thinking... how useful might it be if my system logs were also sent there, so they would pop so I could see them. I think the first step of this is to ...
