From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 14:28:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E9D106564A for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:28:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32038FC31 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LzXEv-0001rD-Dj; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:28:08 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LzXEp-0006Pu-JN; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:27:48 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3UERl6L032887; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:27:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3UERiD9032886; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:27:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:27:44 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Robert Noland Message-ID: <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090424112709.GA29412@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1240594738.58743.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090428133027.GA45901@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241076847.28498.291.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:28:10 -0000 On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:08:39AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 03:34 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:30 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:38:58PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:27 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > > I've read the dbus and hald man pages but I'm still confused. > > > > > > > > > > In a configuration where xserver connects to clients via XDMCP > > > > > where do I need to run dbus and hald, or more specifically, on what > > > > > computer do I need to have in /etc/rc.conf these two lines: > > > > > > > > > > dbus_enable="YES" > > > > > hald_enable="YES" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > a. only on the machine which runs xserver? > > > > > b. only on the machine which runs the clients? > > > > > c. on both the xserver and clients machines? > > > > > > > As far as keyboard and mouse are concerned these are client side > devices. The server itself can be run headless, though it has been a > very long time since I've done anything like that... You might need hal > on the server side for things like auto-mounting server side cd's or > whatever, but not for kbd/mouse. I understand this refers to hal, isn't it? But dbus is about interprocess communication, and the processes are run on a remote box. So should I run dbus daemon on the remote box as well, or instead of, the xserver box? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423