Re: Programs like pcmanfm, evince, ... don't connect to dbus unless run with dbus-launch

[Nils Gillmann]

Hi Brendan,

I can definitely confirm this, as I have been dealing with this on and
off for a couple of years now due to the window managers I use.

Would you like to file a bug on this or check if there are / have been
bugreports about this before?  I'm not sure what the best way to
proceed could be, nor do I want to decide on this.

For your new errors, do the files exist which are mentioned?
Depending on your window manager it might be too minimal and require
additional packages as user or system installed.

Brendan Tildesley transcribed 1.9K bytes:
> Continuing on from my previous thread here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00084.html
> 
> I discovered that I was able to work around the problem by running
> pcmanfm with dbus-launch. Running `dbus-launch evince` also fixed an
> issue I had with Evince not remembering the last page I was on in a
> document. However, I understand next to nothing about dbus, gvfs, ,etc,
> so I'm still not sure what the answer is. But I think this is the
> essential clue that identifies the problem.
> 
> I tried modifying the slim service to launch the session with
> dbus-launch, but that only served to create some new errors when running
> pcmanfm:
> 
> -------
> 
> invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
> org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor::
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor was not provided by any .service files
> (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
> invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
> org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor::
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor was not provided by any .service files
> (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
> invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
> org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor::
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor was not provided by any .service files
> (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
> -------
> 
> Although I can run `dbus-launch bash` from a terminal and then run
> pcmanfm from there and it will work fine (no longer displays the hidden
> mounts, and displays my actual hard drives, and lets me mount them). It
> be great if someone could help solve this, I know at least a couple
> other people in the irc chat have experienced this bug, usually when
> using some tiling wm like i3 instead of the full GNOME desktop. Is it an
> issue with SLiM, or and issue somewhere else?
> 
>