xfce4-terminal: set --disable-server in terminalrc

Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao marcelpaulo+l at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 12:36:29 CET 2005


Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote on Dec, 28:

[...]

> > >>>Actually I thought of using it to get rid of these messages that are 
> > >>>output when I start xfce4-terminal:
> > >>>Unable to register terminal service: D-BUS error 
> > >>>org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Unable to determine the address of the 
> > >>>message bus

> > >>You could install dbus-1-utils and restart your session :)

[...]

> > > My new doubt then is: why doesn't xfce4-terminal also have dependency on 
> > > dbus-1-utils, since dbus-1 and dbus-glib-1 are not enough to provide the DBUS 
> > > service ?

> > The dbus-1 and dbus-glib-1 are required because xfce4-terminal is built
> > with dbus support. But you don't have to run dbus if you don't want to,
> > you can disable it at runtime. If you want it, you can install dbus-1-utils.

> I'm still missing something: if I don't want to have dbus running, I'd have to 
> remove package dbus-1, but dbus-glib-1 depends on it and xfce4-terminal 
> depends on dbus-glib-1, so Catch-22. In other words, xfce4-terminal forces me 
> to have dbus running. Of course, I could simply remove the S* links in 
> /etc/rc*.d, but this is not the Debian way of doing it. If I got things 
> correctly, I still think the dependencies are incorrect.

My sincere apologies: I've just discovered that dbus-1 can be disabled, 
setting in /etc/default/dbus-1:

ENABLE=0

Thanks again for your patience
Paulo



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