Bug 208397 - FreeBSD Handbook x11-wm Section 5.7 - KDE needs dbus , hald enabled
Summary: FreeBSD Handbook x11-wm Section 5.7 - KDE needs dbus , hald enabled
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Warren Block
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: 202790 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2016-03-30 14:06 UTC by papowell
Modified: 2016-03-30 23:02 UTC (History)
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Description papowell 2016-03-30 14:06:12 UTC 
FreeBSD Handbook 5.7. Desktop Environments (As of 30 Mar 2016)
Section 5.7.1. GNOME describes how to add proc, dbus_enable:

GNOME requires /proc to be mounted. Add this line to /etc/fstab to mount this file system automatically during system startup:

proc           /proc       procfs  rw  0   0

GNOME uses D-Bus and HAL for a message bus and hardware abstraction. These applications are automatically installed as dependencies of GNOME. Enable them in /etc/rc.conf so they will be started when the system boots:

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

I think that KDE requires this as well as it uses part of the GNOME Libary. 

I believe it was present in earlier versions but not in the current one.

If you start KDE but do not have dbus enabled it exits with an error message.
The KDE port also has dbus as a dependency.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-03-30 21:19:16 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: wblock
Date: Wed Mar 30 21:19:09 UTC 2016
New revision: 48513
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48513

Log:
  Add dbus and hal configuration settings for KDE.  Careful viewers will
  note a strange similarity to the wording in the GNOME section.

  PR:		208397
  Submitted by:	Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com>

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
Comment 2 Jason Helfman freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-03-30 23:02:23 UTC 
*** Bug 202790 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***