dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:12 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:49:05PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > I think I finally got this working,
> > > after half a year of trying.
> > 
> > Can you summerize the difference between configuration/commands
> > for old X (without dbus, hal) and new X (with dbus, hal)? We do
> > have some diskless stations with 6.x and I'd like to test 8.x
> > and modern X. Thanks.
> 
> no difference. On 6.4 alpha as soon as I put
> 
> dbus-launch --exit-with-session mwm in $HOME/.xsession
> 
> I couldn't get anything from mwm, i.e. there was no reaction to
> any mouse clicks. I would get xdm login window, login fine,
> but then mwm wouldn't react to mouse clicks. Typically I use the
> right button to bring up a menu from where I launch xterm.
> But neither button would show anything.
> 
> Adding xterm, or any other program to .xsession after the dbus
> line didn't work either. But there were several dbus processes
> launched.
> 
> In short, my impression was that mwm (or fvwm) didn't work well with dbus,
> and some session initialisation process would never finish.
> 
> On 8.0 ia64 I replicated everything as it was on 6.4 alpha,
> and it worked.

In general, the GNOME team only tests on i386 and amd64.  Occasionally,
some testing may get done on sparc64.  Other platforms (especially
alpha) should expect problems.  That's not to say we don't want things
to work on those platforms.  We just require users to submit patches.

Joe

> 
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