[Interest] "Dynamic session lookup supported but failed"

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 17 May 2015 17:59:58 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> TBH, it kind of makes sense to me not to autostart a daemon that should set
> env. variables in a context where it cannot set those variables. Suppose it
> gets started, and then the user launches another app that also requires a
> session DBus. If usually it would find the correct dbus-daemon with the
> help of an env. variable (DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and/or
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID), what is it going to do when that variable isn't set?
> Launch another daemon, which might cause all kinds of side-effects?

Fortunately for us, we thought of this problem back in 2006.

No environment variables are harmed in the race-free solution for X11 
autostart.

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