Fix Dbus Daemon Autolaunch Was Disabled at Compile Time

When I tried to run notify-send on my laptop running Gentoo, it didn’t work and was given the following message: $ notify-send 'hello' Connecting to D-Bus failed: Using X11 for dbus-daemons autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead How do one set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? Accoridng to this, it can be done by running: $ export $(dbus-launch) However, I want to also have D-Bus compiled with X11 support. First let’s verify if D-Bus service is running:...

January 15, 2019 · 2 min · 238 words · kenno

Fix: Fail running Firefox on FreeBSD without D-Bus running

This weekend I replaced Kubuntu 16.04 with FreeBSD 12 on an old HP laptop. I came across with lots of problems, but mainly because I wanted to have some experiences with UEFI and GPT. Anyway, currently the laptop is running FreeBSD 12-current with i3 as the windows manager. After Firefox was installed, I ran it from the menu (rofi) and nothing appeared. So I ran it from a terminal instead. Here was the output:...

February 11, 2018 · 1 min · 134 words · kenno