From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:11:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760n6ndh3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shqb1byq.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:22:37 +0100")
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> “gvfs” is useful for more than just GNOME. For a long time I tried to
> figure out why USB devices would not be mounted automatically in Xfce
> and I ran gvfsd and the gvfs-* device monitor daemons manually — until
> today when I understood that these daemons are supposed to be started
> automatically if only the DBUS service files were found.
>
> We probably should add it to the “gnome” meta-package, and additionally
> document in the manual that gvfs must be installed system-wide to allow
> DBUS to find the service files and start the monitoring daemons on
> demand.
If it’s not specific to GNOME, what about adding it to
‘%desktop-services’?
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diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
index 7555780..c359035 100644
--- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ with the administrator's password."
(screen-locker-service xlockmore "xlock")
;; The D-Bus clique.
+ (simple-service 'gvfsd dbus-root-service-type gvfs)
(avahi-service)
(wicd-service)
(udisks-service)
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Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-28 18:47 [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-28 19:16 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-11-28 21:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-28 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-28 22:22 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-29 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-11-29 22:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-30 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-19 13:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
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