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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2019 20:26:07 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>
Cc:        x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kde5 and DBus issue + input problems
Message-ID:  <blzp-jcn4-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e74ae8b7-9ca9-c5cb-f0d6-b25a8a6d5bc4@gjunka.com> (Grzegorz Junka's message of "Sun, 26 May 2019 14:41:04 %2B0000")
References:  <e74ae8b7-9ca9-c5cb-f0d6-b25a8a6d5bc4@gjunka.com>

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Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Trying kde5 on a fresh FreeBSD 12-RELEASE system. I pretty much
> installed kde5 and xinit. Then edited .xinitrc to contain
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
>
> Initially startx was starting the X11 session but nothing was being
> shown apart from a window with this note:
>
> Could not sync environment to dbus

DBus requirement is documented in the Handbook.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html#x11-wm-kde
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48513

> I then run
>
> dbus-uuidgen --ensure
>
> and now the desktop starts fine. Is this a bug or expected? Note that
> I am using my own compiled kde5 so some settings may not be the
> default ones.

It's not just KDE, see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228001



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