dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:08:39AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 03:34 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:30 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:38:58PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:27 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > > I've read the dbus and hald man pages but I'm still confused.
> > > > > 
> > > > > In a configuration where xserver connects to clients via XDMCP
> > > > > where do I need to run dbus and hald, or more specifically, on what
> > > > > computer do I need to have in /etc/rc.conf these two lines: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > dbus_enable="YES"
> > > > > hald_enable="YES"
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > a. only on the machine which runs xserver?
> > > > > b. only on the machine which runs the clients?
> > > > > c. on both the xserver and clients machines?
> > > > > 
> 
> As far as keyboard and mouse are concerned these are client side
> devices.  The server itself can be run headless, though it has been a
> very long time since I've done anything like that...  You might need hal
> on the server side for things like auto-mounting server side cd's or
> whatever, but not for kbd/mouse.

I understand this refers to hal, isn't it?

But dbus is about interprocess communication, and the processes are
run on a remote box. So should I run dbus daemon on the remote box
as well, or instead of, the xserver box?

many thanks
anton

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