Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:46:25 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: ian ivy <sidetripping@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME2 - avahi daemons and various ports. Message-ID: <1318866385.48910.29.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <CAASvXNsgAM0ppM4MvNfAOuQqMAQ2jkot0duhbhFe7FETnGaGyQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAASvXNtx41nvWLOZaH9Or09syMEHhUvKO04LPuSvC3FrdxwZQg@mail.gmail.com> <1318852362.48910.13.camel@xenon> <CAASvXNsgAM0ppM4MvNfAOuQqMAQ2jkot0duhbhFe7FETnGaGyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:58 +0200, ian ivy wrote: > Hi, yes you are right - HAL is crap. On my other machine > with FreeBSD, I'm using Xfce4 without HAL and Dbus. > It is only a few lines in xorg.conf file to get rid of these things. > dbus isn't much of an issue, it's just a lightweight process communicator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus Many applications nowadays use dbus regardless of Gnome (or KDE) and lose some functionality without it (or won't run at all). Gnome itself won't start without dbus running. > > I don't have gnome-session listening in both Gnome 2, > > nor Gnome 3. But no idea where your behavior might come from. > > It is quite strange. Especially when you are saying that you don't have > gnome-session listening. Maybe someone else will knew solution? > > > I'd go for pf in case you're concerned about external connections. > > Thanks. When I saw these results of sockstat and netstat, I immediately > created a PF rules. > One more thing. For now, I starting GNOME with startx command, so I > must added to the .xinitrc file something like; > > /usr/local/bin/gnome-session > > Can you write, which login manager you are using? This may be related > to gnome-session listening. GDM, the Gnome's default display manager. Some Gnome features like multiple user switching are tied to GDM, as they integrate directly into it. Basically, the two dbus_enable="YES" gdm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf is all I use for launching Gnome, without HAL and rest of the pointless stuff. I even had avahi enabled for like a year or two once, "in case I maybe find out some use for it one day"... Guess what. I never did. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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