Re: lxqt crashing (Was: NetBSD 10 packages)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 16:06, Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 10/5/23 07:33, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > I'm leaning toward not enabling dbus in rc.conf when LXQT is chosen in
> > desktop-installer.  I don't think dbus serves any purpose when there is
> > no login session running, but please chime in if I'm wrong about this.
> > Since LXQT starts its own dbus process anyway, the system service is at
> > best useless, and at worst buggers the login session.
>
> On second thought, this would be problematic for my future plans to
> support multiple desktops under SDDM login manager.  I can't assume that
> all DEs will launch their own dbus when necessary, so I think it should
> be enabled as a system service universally, and we should fix the issue
> LXQT has with it.

That would be my inclination. Would you have access to a Linux system
or similar on which to check if lxqt starts an additional dbus process
there too? (Just wondering if it might have logic to conditionally
start dbus and the check is not firing correctly on NetBSD)

David