mcs file manager plugin

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Jul 14 13:50:38 CEST 2006


Nikolas Arend wrote:
>>>> 
>>>
>>>So, the service was not installed properly, which means Thunar's D-BUS
>>>.service files are not available to the D-BUS daemon.
>>>
>>>  
>>
>>Hm, what does "not installed properly" mean? As far as I see, they are 
>>installed in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/:
>>
>>$ ls -la /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
>>total 48
>>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 13 12:04 .
>>drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 13 12:05 ..
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   55 Jan 17 22:23 dhcdbd.service
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   59 Mar 20 22:43 named.service
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   72 Jul 13 12:05 org.xfce.FileManager.service
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   67 Jul 13 12:05 org.xfce.Thunar.service
>>
>>coming from
>>
>>$ rpm -ql Thunar | grep "\.service"
>>/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.FileManager.service
>>/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Thunar.service
>>
>>What am I missing here?
>>
>>Thanks,  Nick.
>>
> 
> Just restarted the messagebus and ran xfce-mcs-manager from console, 
> getting this message when opening the fm_plugin:
> 
> "Error: Failed to execute program /usr/bin/Thunar --daemon: No such file 
> or directory"
> 
> But Thunar is definitely installed at that location:
> 
> $ which Thunar
> /usr/bin/Thunar
> 
> Any thoughts?

Try to remove the --daemon cmdline parameter, maybe your D-BUS version
is too old to handle autoactivation properly.

> Nick.

Benedikt



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