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Revision as of 18:40, 17 April 2023
D-Bus is a message bus system that provides a mechanism for inter-process communication.
Some services (including Pipewire) rely on a D-Bus session instance. Other processes will only be able to communicate with these services if d-bus is running.
You can start a dbus session like this: dbus-run-session -- sh(replacing sh with your shell or a window manager), or, export $(dbus-launch). This is distinct from running dbus system-wide: rc-service dbus start, which is a prerequisite to run a user dbus session.
D-Bus passes the environment variable $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to its children. Running dbus-launch in a terminal means that other running process won't find this D-Bus's socket.
If $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is undefined, many applications will attempt to use the standard path:
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus
Running D-Bus like so should work for many applications:
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