gEDA-dev: gschem feature request: derive a pcb search string from a selection

[Peter Clifton]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 07:23 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> >>> Any hints what causes this show-stopper?
> >>
> >> Reading the READMEs I have the notion that dbus support is missing in my
> >> version of pcb. ---> Will do a recompile tomorow...
> >
> > Unfortunately not.
> > I configured pcb with --enable-dbus, did a make install, but gxsch2pcb
> > still hangs when it starts starts pcb.
> 
> DBUS is a system daemon.  Is it running on your machine?  If not, you
> need to start it.
> 
> In principle, it starts running by default at boot time on newer Linux
> distros.  However, I don't know what you are running.  Also, note that
> I said "in principle".  In practice, I've found it to be flakey.  That
> might be operator error, however....

DBus has many guises, there is a peer-to-peer mode, and the bus mode.
Usually, (modern distro), there are two buses running, a system bus for
notifications about hardware events etc.., system control. There is then
the session bus, which is the one user apps usually attach and
communicate via.

If you're missing a session bus, xgsch2pcb won't work (It ought not to
care too much about the system bus).

Try "dbus-launch /path/to/xgsch2pcb"

That will fire up a bus for that app, and it should work for apps
launched from within xgsch2pcb.

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

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