GNU bug report logs - #12112
24.1.50; Starting emacs without dbus

Previous Next

Full log

Message #13 received at 12112-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Cc: 12112-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12112: 24.1.50; Starting emacs without dbus
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:08:18 +0200

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no> writes:

> Yet another possibility: A special startup flag to stop emacs from
> launching dbus, perhaps by unsetting DISPLAY in its own environment
> during startup, then resetting it after all the code that might
> conceivably launch dbus has run. (This may not be practical.)

Finally, it is sufficient to set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to a syntactic
correct, but invalid address. Call Emacs like

# env DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/tmp/foo emacs

I have documented this in the Emacs manual, node Emacs Invocation >
Environment > General Variables. I'm closing this bug.

> - Harald

Best regards, Michael.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.