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>      Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace the
> own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But
> Dbus seems to have infected every other DE. At least Xfce4.

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>      Didier

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I do not understand this animosity toward D-BUS. Could you please explain why it is such a point of contention? It is a only a protocol, with many different implementations. It is comfortably very generic and used on other UNIXs.