Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:27:44 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? Message-ID: <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> 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>
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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
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