On 11/06/2019 11.34, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:40:30 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
On 11/06/2019 02.48, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I never heard of dbus services. How do I disable it, preferably for one user?
Why not uninstall it if you don't like it?
Why should I, if another user in the machine wants to use it? Ie, there must be a proper way to stop it. Removing the package is a similar hack to the one I use of renaming it. And anyway, if I uninstall polari, this things switches to wanting to start pidgin. And one of the two shares libraries with empathy, which is the one I use.
If not, there's someinfo at https://askubuntu.com/questions/843076/how-to-blacklist-a-d-bus-service
There's also some useful background at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50955 which points out that "D-Bus services are only launched if something communicates with them: services that aren't requested don't get launched." So you may need to look elsewhere to understand your problem.
And how do I find what the heck is requesting it? I tried it once, and it refuses to exit. If I remove it, something starts another client. WTF?
PS What is polari? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=polari
A chat client. I use it for IRC. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))