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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: X, dbus and hal - how to?
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I'm running X remotely, i.e. xorg-server and clients are on different boxes.

After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that
dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server.

Can somebody confirm this?

many thanks
anton

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