How do we start the D-bus session manually? (SOLVED)

[mikewalsh]

Afternoon, gang.

Now then; how do we start the D-bus session from a shell script?

I know I've used it before in one of my hundreds of scripts, at some point over the last few years. I'm hanged if I can find it, so can anyone enlighten me?

I'm troubleshooting a particular AppImage that insists it wants D-bus, and is complaining that it hasn't launched. I've had to strip it down with "--appimage-extract" anyway, since it's one of those that insists it can't see its own Qt5 libs. Usually, using the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' variable will let me get these started, but this one has thrown a new wrinkle by wanting Dbus, too.

Any takers? Advice will, as usual, be very much appreciated; everything on-line is about using the dreaded systemd...

Mike.

[bigpuppyfan]

Try this, before launching the appimage from the same terminal window:

Code: Select all

export $(dbus-launch)

[rockedge]

@mikewalsh,
Try this in the script ->

Code: Select all

dbus-daemon --system

or ->

Code: Select all

dbus-daemon --session

[mikewalsh]

@bigpuppyfan / @rockedge :-

Cheers for the replies, guys. As it turns out, bigpuppyfan's

Code: Select all

export $(dbus-launch)

.....was the one I was looking for. I knew there was an "export" in there somewhere, but I've got so many scripts stored away it would have taken me hours to search through them all. It was simply quicker to ask!

As soon as I saw it, I knew that was the one; I just didn't remember the exact wording, 'twas all......and I'd forgotten the "$" variable, too.

Ta very much, lads!

Mike.