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Autor: chris
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [Dng] GNOME and GDM
I've had a very quick look at wicd alas it seems to make fairly
extensive use itself of dbus - which I guess does leave it open to use
by unprivileged users ?

Worryingly it looks like there is groundwork (at least in setup.py) for
systemd and there is a systemd service file - we can only hope this
remains as an *option*


On 05/12/14 18:24, chris wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>     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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