ConsoleKit and esound retirement

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02/15/2013 07:57 AM, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 06:35 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Nothing fancy:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GDBusConnection.html#GDBusCallFlags
>
> or
>
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusMessage.html#ga1596d92a8d604f954b48c7410263d2f0

Thanks, that is likely / hopefully exactly what we're looking for.

Regards,

Hans