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From: Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:34:55
Message-Id: 20090510153808.0f540674@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name by walt
1 On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700
2 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Jorge Morais wrote:
5 > > When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this:
6 > > ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon:
7 > > Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name...
8 >
9 > You don't appear to be running an actual gnome session
10 Yes. I use a minimal LXDE environment. And sorry for not making that clear.
11 Stupid me.
12 > nor do you have
13 > the gnome-settings-daemon package installed, am I correct?
14 Yes. I have gconf (as a dependency of evince), and I see that when
15 evince is started, a process named gconfd-2 runs. I thought this was
16 the settings daemon evince needs. I didn't know there was a
17 gnome-settings-daemon package.
18 > If you don't have the settings-daemon running then such an
19 error would be expected.
20 But do you know what this error causes? If it is a harmless warning
21 message, I think it is better to ignore it than install
22 gnome-settings-daemon, which pulls 24 other packages.

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