[tomboy-list] compiling/running issues on Ubuntu 11.10

[Chow Loong Jin]

On 08/05/2012 10:20, Alemann Massho wrote:
> Well, if that's true, then maybe I have found the source of my problem.
> On my computer, there is for some strange reason a bug, that I have
> tried for about three quarters of a year to fix, where Unity doesn't
> start automatically when I log in (from gdm, lightdm, xdm, or kdm.) My
> problem is described well in
> http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/04/missing-top-and-side-panels-in-unity.html.
> So I always just log in to tty1 and run unity there. So maybe unity is
> inheriting the variables from the tty shell I am starting it from; and
> because the variable is not set in that shell, Unity doesn't know about
> it and can't make it available to processes run in gnome-terminal which
> I have used to run tomboy? This seems to make sense, because the _only_
> programs that get the impression that D-Bus isn't running are the
> programs that are child processes of unity and by extension tty1!  This
> also makes sense to me because I recall encountering a similar error a
> short time after Unity stopped launching by default. Of course, if this
> is what is happening, and I am hoping it is, it just means that I know
> what happened and not how I can fix it.  Does it sound plausible that
> this is the error's root cause? 

Yes, that's it. When you start Unity, you need to make sure you start it from a
process that inherits from the gnome-session process, or otherwise set the
environment variables yourself. The ones that seem important are
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE, SESSION_MANAGER,
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET, GPG_AGENT_INFO, SSH_AUTH_SOCK, XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY.

You're better off filing a bug on Unity regarding this.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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