Difference between revisions of "Getting Started/Tutorials/D-Bus/Configuration"

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Getting_Started/Tutorials/D-Bus/Configuration

Configuring for Services

All KDE-4 versions

If you instlled KDE in: "/usr/KDE-4, the D-Bus services will be installed in "/usr/KDE-4/share/dbus-1/services". D-Bus needs to find these services and use them.

If you only have one version of KDE installed and you normally use it, simply add, for example:

<servicedir>/usr/KDE-4/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>

{use the actual path from your system}

to your: "/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf" file.

If your system doesn't yet have that file, create it:

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
  <servicedir>/usr/KDE-4/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
</busconfig>

{use the actual path from your system}

If you have installed an additional version of KDE-4 that you start with another user account according to the instructions for building KDE4.x, things are not as simple since you need to have the D-Bus services for that KDE-4 installation override the normal ones ONLY when using that user account. Instead of adding the path for the service directory to: "/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf" file, add this link:

<include ignore_missing="yes">$HOME/.config/dbus-1/session-local.conf</include>

Then create the above: "session-local.conf" file in the: "$HOME/.config/dbus-1" directory (which you will have to create).

KDE-4.4 and TRUNK

TO DO

SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR

TO DO

Work In Progress

My apologies! The documentation for D-Bus is inadequate, but I am working on this. Till then, ask on the KDE or KDE-Linux mailing lists.