Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of GNOME

Timestamp:

01/17/12 22:17:04 (16 months ago)

Author:

dports@…

Comment:

remove mention of dbus-launch

GNOME

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 The GNOME Foundation uses the version scheme where odd minor versions indicate that a package or product is a development version, such that GNOME 2.27.x is a development version, considered unstable, while 2.26.x is a release version that is considered stable.
 == Running GNOME ==
-The GNOME desktop may be run by issuing the command '''gnome-session &''' from an ''xterm'', adding the line '''USERWM=gnome-session''' to a script in your ''~/.xinitrc.d'' directory, or adding the command '''exec gnome-session''' to a script in your ''~/.xinitrc.d'' directory. If you use [http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus dbus], you may prefer to use the command '''exec dbus-launch gnome-session''' to allow GNOME applications to take advantage of the dbus interprocess communications system.
+The GNOME desktop may be run by issuing the command '''gnome-session &''' from an ''xterm'', adding the line '''USERWM=gnome-session''' to a script in your ''~/.xinitrc.d'' directory, or adding the command '''exec gnome-session''' to a script in your ''~/.xinitrc.d'' directory. 
 === Environment ===
 The environment that GNOME runs in requires that the following variables be set. These are shown with the values for a default MacPorts installation:
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 The following examples are for use with MacPorts X11 server (xorg-server or xorg-server-devel), the Leopard X11 server, or the SnowLeopard X11 server.  For Tiger support, you will need to make a custom ~/.xinitrc file rather than a custom ~/.xinitrc.d/90-gnome.sh script.  The script must be set executable.
 
-The following ''~/.xinitrc.d/90-gnome.sh'' requires dbus and uses quartz-wm for the WM:
+The following ''~/.xinitrc.d/90-gnome.sh'' uses quartz-wm for the WM:
 {{{
  # make the freedesktop menu entries work
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  # start GNOME
- exec dbus-launch gnome-session
+ exec gnome-session
 }}}