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Author: chris
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Subject: Re: [Dng] GNOME and GDM
I quite like wicd, I'll have a quick look at if dbus is a show stopper...

On 05/12/14 17:47, vladislav Ivanov wrote:
>
> My gentoo experiments indicate that you can have a perfectly good
> system without any dbus stuff, O have not bothered to install a DM,
> since I just use startx.O use openbox in place of a more sophisticate
> DE, libreoffice, Firefox and a number of other common GUI
> applications run OK, however we would need other things like a network
> manager, IIIRC even wicd needs that stuff.
>
> On Dec 5, 2014 7:42 PM, "Aldemir Akpinar" <aldemir.akpinar@???
> <mailto:aldemir.akpinar@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 5 Dec 2014 18:53, "Patrick Erdmann" <pe@???
>     <mailto:pe@perdmann.de>> wrote:

>
>     >
>     > The dbus part is the part which i understand. But what is
>     actually the benefit of using loding in comparison to pam.

>     >

>
>     Personally I don't understand dbus part at all, for it is a wheel
>     reinvented. Unix had already solved interprocess communication by,
>     well, "interprocess communication" or aka IPC.
>     Shared memory, local sockets etc.

>
>     Although at this stage I'm not sure whether it is feasible to
>     write a IPC wrapper to emulate dbus.
>     --
>     Aldemir

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