question re: xfdesktop 4.4.1

[Jason Keltz]

On 05/16/07 13:46, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:27:33 -0400 Jason Keltz wrote:
> 
>> On 05/16/07 12:51, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:43:06 -0400 Jason Keltz wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I want to be able to display file/launcher icons on the desktop,
>>>> is dbus required?  Is dbus required for anything else in xfce?
>>>> Exactly what dbus components do I need to compile?
>>> D-Bus is required, yes.  You need dbus and dbus-glib.  (Pre 0.90-ish
>>> versions of dbus had both in the same package.)  I don't think
>>> anything else in Xfce *requires* D-Bus, but Thunar, Terminal, the
>>> Verve plugin, and probably other stuff can make use of it if it's
>>> there.
>> Does dbus require one daemon per machine, and then another daemon for 
>> every user?
>> If you are not running dbus as a daemon, but the files are available
>> to users, can they still take advantage of dbus (by starting their
>> own?) (I have concerns about dbus security since I don't know that
>> much about it, and also don't really want to run dbus as a daemon on
>> every machine at startup when only a portion of the users will use
>> xfce and hence require dbus..)
> 
> For this functionality, just the per-user session bus daemon is fine.
> It should work without the system daemon.

I compiled dbus with my xfce install, and dbus-glib, and it does work. 
However, when I select "File/launcher icons" from the Desktop setup, I 
get a window that comes up that says:

Trash Error

Unable to contact the Xfce Trash service.

Make sure you have a file manager installed that supports the Xfce Trash 
service, such as Thunar.

The thing is, after I close that box, it seems like everything is 
working.  I get the trash on my desktop, and can use it.  Of course I'm 
using Thunar.

jas.