ConsoleKit and esound retirement

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02/14/2013 01:28 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:53 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:49:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>>> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>> Disadvantage, if you ask me.  First thing audacious did was spew
>>>> random errors to the screen and change my Firefox and emacs cursors.
>>>
>>> So I suspect that Audacious started gnome-settings-daemon.
>>
>> It doesn't do that when I use OpenBox instead of GNOME, so OpenBox
>> does not auto-spawn g-s-d.
>>
>> However, one of its plug-ins talks to DBus (org.gnome.SettingsDaemon)
>> for GNOME media player keyboard shortcuts. That plug-in is enabled by
>> default and by request, and anyone not running a compatible environment
>> can easily switch it off in the preferences.
>
> Or you could fix the plugin to not auto-start the daemon so we don't get
> blamed for Audacious bugs...

Actually after seeing this thread I was planning on sending a mail to
ask people how to fix this. I guess that dbus-activation causes
g-s-d to start when the audacious tries to talk to it.

Rather then a less the friendly worded reply, it would be actually
helpful if you could tell us (pointer to a code example would be a
bonus) how to talk to a dbus interface without causing
dbus-activation to trigger.

Regards,

Hans