Why Do I See some gnome stuff running on my system?

[Rex Dieter]

Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:08:57 Rex Dieter wrote:
>  > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>  > > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 15:50:29 Rex Dieter wrote:
>  > > > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>  > > > > Can somebody answer me why I see gnome-keyring-daemon
>  > > gconf-im-settings,
>  > > > > gconfd-2, running when I'm not running a single gnome app on my 
> system?
>  > > >
>  > > > rpm -q gnome-keyring-pam
>  > > > and/or
>  > > > rpm -q NetworkManager-gnome
>  >
>  > > gnome-keyring-pam-2.24.1-1.fc10.x86_64
>  > > NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0.99-5.git20090326.fc10.x86_64
>  >
>  > There ya go, so not quite "not running a single gnome app".
>  >
> 
> 
> Rex...
> 
> 
> How in the world do these things get invoked? Just because an 
> application is installed, it runs? Hows that?

gnome-keyring-pam is integrated with gdm/kdm
NetworkManager-gnome (aka nm-applet) autostarts on login

-- Rex