Re: What is the best place to start gdomap, gdnc and gpbs?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Lars,

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> In other words I don't need to launch make_services neither in .profile nor in 
> .xinitrc but only need to run it manually once after installing applications?

Exactly. make_services essentially keeps track of all apps and all 
document types, so that you can "gopen mydocument" in a shell or 
double-click on an document in a workspace application like GWorkspace. 
No new apps, no need to run it again.
Ideally, in a purely package-based install system, you would need to run 
it as a "post-install" action.
> What would be the of starting gdnc and gdomap systemwide before somebody logs 
> in? Would it be needed for GNUstep based demons or is there another idea beind 
> using rc.d init?
>
> The documentation of gdnc 
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Tools/Reference/gdnc.html says: 
> "Every user needs to have his own instance of gdnc running." So I am a bit 
> confused.

Indeed, perhaps i am wrong, only gdomap can be system-wide. About gdnc I 
don't know. If it auto-starts you get more than one, actually not just 
for any user, but even if you have more displays (IIRC)

> But somehow I never see a "gdomap" process appearing in top when I look for it.

Richard may correct me, but if you use unix sockets and your programs 
run locally (normal desktop use) it is esentially not needed.
On GNU/HURD where you don't have unix sockets, you don't need it.

Riccardo