Bug#836402: italc: please don't run dbus-launch

Tobias Doerffel tobias.doerffel at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 16:31:01 UTC 2016


Hi,

> As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>
> I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian.
> italc seems to contain a copy of x11vnc, with the same bug that I
> reported there: if I'm reading ica/x11/x11vnc/ssltools.h correctly,
> x11vnc currently runs `dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session`
> if both dbus-launch and gnome-session are found.
>

as far as I can see dbus-launch is only used for creating new displays
on-demand, a feature which is not used by iTALC Client Application
(which integrates many features from x11vnc). The bug therefore isn't
relevant for iTALC.

Thanks and best regards

Tobias



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